From “Just Us: An American Conversation” by Claudia Rankine

And this is understandable, yes,

understandable because the culture claims white 

is owned everything—a wealth of inheritance 
a system insures. In each generation 

he equation holds—and better than 
before and indifferent to now and enough 

and always and inevitably white. 

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, essayist and playwright. Her books include Citizen: An American Lyric, The White Card: A Play, and Just Us: An American Conversation. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.