I'm doing this live stream.

This is the first time I've done this.

Hopefully you guys will find this interesting and useful.

Obviously, there's a lot to talk about.

It's almost three weeks after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis,

and there have been riots and protests all over the country and all over the world,

all centering around the issue of racism and police brutality.

And this is an issue I've written about and thought about for a while.

So I'm thinking to begin, some of you have been submitting questions.

So I'm going to take a couple of the questions you previously submitted,

and then after I do a few of those,

then I'll just ask you to ask questions in the comment section,

and we can go from there okay so i uh i won't say your last names

for anonymity's sake but joe jo asks uh i'm curious to know what your thoughts are

regarding the wealth gap between white and black households

regarding how that gap can be closed yes so the the racial wealth gap this has been a

common topic of conversation I think really dating back to 2014. I mean, folks have been

talking about it before that, but it was really mainstreamed with Tana Hasi Coates' now famous

essay, The Case for Reparations, which I believe came out in 2014. And ever since then, you see pretty frequently the racial wealth gap discussed in the

media. This is the fact that the median white household has between 10 and 20 times the wealth

of the median black household, depending on which data you trust. So understandably, many people see this and they think, you know, if this is the kind of thing

that sums up in a single statistic, all of the grievances that people have about systemic

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