Week 10

In the "Tale of Two Families" there were two boys one name Byron Green and the other Max Holland.  They were about the same age, but Byron is black and Max is white.  Max has twice as much wealth as Byron.  Byron's parents bought a two story duplex, and Max's parents house was given to them by their persons.  Back then black people were very limited to finding a job, Max's family had the money to pay for his schooling.  Max found a job right out of school.  The manufacturing that Byron's parents worked at crashed, and many people in his neighborhood had to leave.  For Max it was just getting better and better.  He started his own business by borrowing money from his uncle.  Byron didn't have any family members that could just hand him money left and right.  Byron was able to get a scholarship to an Ivy League school because of his family's uncertain financial situation.  Max was 18 and had a lot of money in his savings and used it to send his parents on vacations.  Byron sold their house for 29,500 and Max's family sold theirs for 299,000.  Byron helps his family as much as he can.  Max had the help from his parents to get the house that he has and have the business that he has today because of them.  Discrimination made a big difference for people, and they didn't have as much money as they needed to get by.