But frfr I have a word on my spirit regarding this: beware of anybody who uses you as EVIDENCE but does not include you in their ANALYSIS.
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Not that there weren't always wealthier blk folks... but institutions existed to enforce the racial caste system on us regardless of $$.
That is still true to this day, but not necessarily to the same extent, or, more accurately, not as successfully bc we have more power now.
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Any accurate class analysis in the US MUST understand that for most of US history, blackness put you in a separate class below poor whites.
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That was the ENTIRE purpose of Jim Crow---to ensure that blackness remained an independent class marker after the end of slavery.
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