Page:Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.pdf/219

Rh History speaks. In some form, it can be heard forever. The race-based gaps that first developed centuries ago are echoes from the past that still exist today. By all accounts, they are still stark.

Start with wealth and income. Just four years ago, in 2019, Blackblack [sic] families’ median wealth was approximately $24,000. For Whitewhite [sic] families, that number was approximately eight times as much (about $188,000). These wealth disparities “exis[t] at every income and education level,” so, “[o]n average, white families with college degrees have over $300,000 more wealth than black families with college degrees.” This disparity has also accelerated overtime—from a roughly $40,000 gap between Whitewhite [sic] and Blackblack [sic] household median net worth in 1993 to a roughly $135,000 gap in 2019. Median income numbers from 2019 tell the same story: $76,057 for Whitewhite [sic] households, $98,174 for Asian households, $56,113 for Latino households, and $45,438 for Blackblack [sic] households.

These financial gaps are unsurprising in light of the link