Let me put it this way: Black Americans are about 13 percent of the nation’s population but possess about 2.6 percent of the nation’s wealth… So, the Black share in wealth is considerably lower than the percentage of Blacks in the nation’s population. “The author takes aim at the idea that buying Black and banking Black will enable Black Americans to eliminate the racial wealth gap, and it punctures the fantasy of a Black capitalist empire. “The author takes aim at the idea that buying Black and banking Black will enable Black Americans to eliminate the racial wealth gap, and it punctures the fantasy of a Black capitalist empire.