Shapiro mentions that “wealth is different from income, and, most importantly, families use wealth in very different ways than they use income” (76). Wealth is a social status and income is the amount of money one is bringing in on a steady basis. As human beings “wealth changes our conception of racial inequalities, its nature and magnitude, origins and transition of wealth” (Shapiro 77). It shapes how a person acts and how they carry themselves. One who is wealthy may feel more above than one who is not, for instance. Shapiro also mentions that “the leading ideological and scholarly answer is that wealth emerges from hard work, disciplined consumption, saving and wise investment, with perhaps some luck thrown in” (77). For the White people in America, wealth did not emerge from hard work, but rather stolen from the Native Americans. Hard work would be those who had to put forth a great amount of effort just to survive, even when they felt that there was little to no opportunity for them. Black People, for example, have once felt they had no opportunity in the “land of the free,” but still try their best to achieve a normal life. White and Black people do not have equal opportunities nor will they ever unless we unite and try to fix our social structure. That does not just go for the White and Black people, but also for the Latinos, Arabs and Asians who have to go through the same struggles everyday, from finding jobs to having homeownership to secure some type of wealth for their future and the next
Shapiro mentions that “wealth is different from income, and, most importantly, families use wealth in very different ways than they use income” (76). Wealth is a social status and income is the amount of money one is bringing in on a steady basis. As human beings “wealth changes our conception of racial inequalities, its nature and magnitude, origins and transition of wealth” (Shapiro 77). It shapes how a person acts and how they carry themselves. One who is wealthy may feel more above than one who is not, for instance. Shapiro also mentions that “the leading ideological and scholarly answer is that wealth emerges from hard work, disciplined consumption, saving and wise investment, with perhaps some luck thrown in” (77). For the White people in America, wealth did not emerge from hard work, but rather stolen from the Native Americans. Hard work would be those who had to put forth a great amount of effort just to survive, even when they felt that there was little to no opportunity for them. Black People, for example, have once felt they had no opportunity in the “land of the free,” but still try their best to achieve a normal life. White and Black people do not have equal opportunities nor will they ever unless we unite and try to fix our social structure. That does not just go for the White and Black people, but also for the Latinos, Arabs and Asians who have to go through the same struggles everyday, from finding jobs to having homeownership to secure some type of wealth for their future and the next