[#1 First clip. A Black person with a beard and mustache is holding and speaking into a pair of white Apple earbuds in their right hand. They are wearing a black shirt with the picture of a woman wearing a pink baseball hat and green leaves on the viewers right side. They gesture emphatically as they speak.
A TikTok comment is shown on the video reading “to be fair, the white family wealth thing includes massive outliers but yea”]
Person in Black Shirt: Why is that white wealth able to exist in the first place in such a disproportionate fashion? Your-
[video abruptly shifts]
[Second clip. Jameelah Jones, a Black woman with long braids wearing a black beanie and a bright orange shirt, talks to the camera. She speaks seriously and deliberately. As she is speaking, the video frequently cuts to slightly different angles of her face.
In the lower right of the video is the TikTok logo and the handle @SunnyDaeJones.]
Jameelah Jones: So I have a degree in African American Studies and I… [shakes head slightly] don’t think people understand the vast amount of money produced by American slavery. By 1860, the four million enslaved people in the United States were worth about $4 billion dollars. And that’s not adjusted for today’s money, that’s $4 billion dollars in 1860. [A text box appears on screen reading “*about 40 trillion dollars today.”]
And that’s just the value of the people. That’s not the value of what they produced: tobacco, cotton, sugar cane. The US South was producing 60% of the [emphasis] world’s cotton by the late 1800s.
The amount of millionaire families. The start of billion dollar industries, wid a ‘b’! Bezos money.
[shakes head] There are whole families, whole towns that are still rich. Hundreds of years later. Still. [shakes head] Y’all have no idea. [exhaling sharply] Whooo
[Video ends]