A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues : What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Social Unrest, Protests, andthe Podcasts -- Notes -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Why Should You Trust My Advice? Who Am I? -- The Anatomy of Race Men and Race Women -- Race Men and Women in History -- Contemporary Race Men and Women -- The Makings of a Race Man -- A Race Man in Business -- Taking a Stand from Within -- The Importance of Being a Philanthropist -- Paying It Forward -- Notes -- Chapter 2 How the Wealth Gap Was Created -- The Roots of Black American Poverty -- The End of Bondage -- Black Codes -- Home Ownership and Wealth Creation -- Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) -- Keeping Suburbs White -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Donate to HBCUs -- HBCUs Financial Need -- Endowments -- HBCU History -- Two Lincoln Universities -- Recent Donations -- How to Make Donations -- Schools That Are Not Colleges -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Deposit Money intoBlack-Owned Banks -- Black-Owned Banks versus White-Owned Banks -- Mortgages -- Contract Selling -- Financial Apartheid -- Freedman's Bank -- Maggie L. Walker -- Banking Black -- How to Make Deposits -- Companies -- Individuals -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Support Black-Owned Businesses -- The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses -- Race in Business -- More Than Employers -- Black in Print -- A Brief History of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States -- White Destruction of Black Businesses -- Supporting Black-Owned Restaurants -- White Firms' Commitment -- How to Find Black-Owned Businesses: Become a Customer -- Basic Search Approach -- National Search Tools -- Professional Trade Associations -- Regional Search Tools -- Local Search Tools -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Write a Letter Supporting Reparations -- Reparations History -- The U.S. Precedent of Paying Out Reparations -- HEAD: Making Reparations Work -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes.

Discussion Questions -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index -- EULA.

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