You’ll get a lot of different answers in this thread.
And that’s important.
Because it isn’t a singular amount.
It’s an amount that transcends and allows you a “fuller” life.
I have a friend that gets a trust of $250k in a few years and another I went to undergrad w/ that gets close to a million when her grandmother died.
Interestingly enough they’re both half Black and the money is coming from the white side.
Other kids I went to school with may only be getting ~$10k or so thousand, quite a few are getting a house or other valuable property handed down, either after graduation, after wedding, or after an older person dies.
A lot of white people don’t get much more than their parents house, bonds or an interest-heavy savings, an aged stock portfolio or a life insurance policy. If not any of that, they may have just been provided a stable two-family home, a good education, a strong network, and maybe tuition paid for.
The thing is: they get *something.*
A lot of African-Americans don’t get any of the above. Disproportionately so.
And that’s why “generational wealth” is such a hinderance, because any of its forms give a boost to the receiver.