NPR

“Drawing from a collection of captivating anecdotes and supported by extensive data, Garrett Neiman's Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America makes a compelling argument that inequality harms us all… Neiman employs a particularly effective metaphor, that of "compounding unearned advantage" to demonstrate how racial and gender advantages amass at an exponential rate, creating more profound inequities over time.”

FAST COMPANY - COMMENTARY

“How us wealthy people invest is as important as where we invest. Restricted, short-term grants are paternalistic and communicate a lack of trust. When the rich white men I know invest in for-profit entrepreneurs, they typically provide long-term, flexible capital; nonprofits deserve the same. My wife and I tried to model this approach by making an unrestricted, 10-year financial commitment to the Movement for Black Lives, which represented a significant portion of our present assets. Over time, I hope more rich white men will make more major, unrestricted, and long-term commitments to social justice movements.”

KIRKUS

”Interestingly, [Neiman] applies notions of intersectionality not just to the oppressed, but also to the oppressors… A thought-provoking book sure to cause heated debate in discussions of equity and social justice… “Compounding unearned advantage says nothing about how hard any individual works or the quality of their choices,” he writes. “Rather, it simply acknowledges that those who benefit from unearned advantages receive a premium on their positive efforts and a discount on their missteps.” Neiman shows how wealth can be leveraged differently to dismantle social and economic inequalities and create a more equitable society.

PROSPERITY NOW

”Prosperity Now, the nation’s leading racial economic justice organization, today announced the selection of noted serial non-profit entrepreneur and Stanford University lecturer Garrett Neiman as its newest Senior Racial Equity Fellow… Neiman’s extensive background will support Prosperity Now’s ongoing efforts to center racial equity in its work, providing a next level of expertise in several areas needed to eliminate systemic racism. This work, with “Rich White Men” being used as a platform, will focus heavily on building White support for closing the wealth gap and passing transformative reparations for Black and Indigenous communities.

MEDIUM

“Reparations is often dismissed as a pie-in-the-sky idea too complicated to implement. Who deserves to benefit? How much should they receive? Where will the money come from Fortunately, reparations programs implemented around the world offer blueprints we can learn from. Germany paid reparations to Israel for the Holocaust. Canada paid reparations to its indigenous populations for segregation. South Africa paid reparations to victims of apartheid… A country that is working on sending its citizens to Mars should have no problem achieving racial equity on its own soil.

WBUR - COMMENTARY

”I grew up in an affluent, predominantly white community. Later, as CEO of CollegeSpring — a nonprofit that has helped 25,000 students from low-income backgrounds prepare for the SATs and college — I split my time raising money from some of America’s richest white people and overseeing programs in some of America's poorest communities of color. The extreme inequality I observed helped me understand that white’s privilege’s benefits are not a one-time windfall, but rather, exponential benefits that accumulate over time.

BOSTON GLOBE

”The admissions scandal suggests that even progressive perceptions of white privilege do not go far enough. Often, white privilege is framed as a “head start” or “being born on third base.” …While helpful, these analogies understate white privilege’s benefits, because they depict white privilege as a one-time windfall. In actuality, white privilege offers compounding benefits that accumulate over time and are amplified by class and other types of privilege.”