The Foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuosly on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how exactly Whites gained their unprecedented wealth and status. A century and a half after the end of legal slavery, the median wealth of White families is $100,000; for Black families, it's $5,000. The belief that Whites achieved this 20-1 wealth advantage by HARD WORK is an absurd and ahistorical fantasy. The truth is a whole lot nastier than that.