The topic of reparations for descendants of enslaved African people as a result of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade are one of the most controversial, unresolved conflicts in modern history. In the context of the United States, the effects of the ever-widening wealth, access and education gap post-reconstruction era are still felt—if not growing. From the reconstruction era to the present, Black communities have experienced over a century of discrimination and violence, victims of unprecedented levels of rage at the very notion of freedom, justice and equality.

Even for those Black, Black-Indigenous and Afro-Descendent individuals that have managed to overcome these physical, emotional and psychological challenges and close these socio-economic gaps within their lifetimes often endure 2-3 times more obstacles, rejections and pushback to then hold only 3% of the nation’s wealth.

That’s a demographic that makes up 16% of the population in the United States holding a minuscule proportion of scalable, inheritable resources and overall wealth mobility while the white majority—which accounts for 60% of the overall population—holds a disproportionate 84%.

While we know this is a longstanding political issue that we could never hope to resolve with a grassroots social media movement and only one designated Juneteenth Holiday a year…

Here at Hola Magnolia, we got a spark that we just couldn’t ignore.

An idea to step away from politics and semantics and just focus on the facts.

There are Black communities all over the world suffering disproportionate levels of systemic exclusion, lack of representation, political marginalization, discrimination and unequal pay.

Some of this comes down to a simple matter of having support at key stages of learning and development.

But some of it comes down to individuals with high levels of wealth and class mobility pouring resources into these historically underrepresented, racially marginalized communities.

We don’t mean charity or disposable income.

Resources in the form of knowledge, devotion, and INVESTMENT.

It would take an entirely new playbook and more than just willpower in order to fix hundreds of years of colonialism just like that—through any government, anyway.