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> Every landlord I've ever met is a lower-middle class Black person who owns an apartment building

Any black American that you know with wealth over $350K is in the top 5% of black Americans. Any black Americans that own a three-flat in Chicago are well into the black 1%, which to white people still looks poor.

Black people pay landlords far more than they are paid as landlords, because rent is a reward for already being wealthy.




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