The data in the below chart comes from popular Youtuber Mason the Man. In a video called “The Formation of the World’s Modern Races” he identifies 17 races and estimates the age and population of each one. I don’t agree with his age estimates because in some cases they seem to refer to the “splitting off dates” and other cases they refer to how long they have looked the way they do now and these are two distinct concepts.

His population estimates sound more plausible, especially since when I added them all up, the total was 7.055 billion which was very close to the World population eight years ago ( 7.615 billion ) which is when the video was published. To make up for the shortfall I added an 18th category to the below chart (mixed race/other) though I suspect a lot of the non-whites races already include a lot of us hybrids and some of his races actually are hybrids (Pardo people of Brazil), actually all of them probably are if you go back far enough.

It’s my favorite time of the year. The leaves are changing color, hot chocolate is being served, horror films are streaming , and most important of all, Forbes just released their annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans.

The bad news? Just when blacks other than Oprah started becoming billionaires, billionaire status is no longer enough to be super rich. Sadly, as soon as a black achieve something, it’s no longer prestigious, kind of like when blacks move into a neighborhood, the house values decline because people move out. When a black became President, suddenly it was possible for orange game show hosts to do so too, and now that some blacks are finally billionaires, billionaire status is no longer that rich.

In fact, over a decade after Oprah became the first multi-billionaire black in American history, even several billion dollars is no longer enough to be super rich. This year you need an astonishing $3.8 billion just to rank dead last behind hundreds of much richer people.

One famous heiress from a very wealthy old money family wanted Forbes not to include her on their list so she could stay anonymous, only to be told “don’t worry you don’t qualify”. The woman went absolutely ballistic calling the Forbes reporter a “F@CKING C@NT! F@CKING WH@RE!!!!”.

Although some Old Money prefer their wealth to be downplayed, they want this to be their choice. Old money is very concerned that they’ve been kicked out of the rich club by a new generation of snot nosed computer geeks and investment bankers who they simply don’t have the IQ to compete with.

Despite being 13% of America, only 1% of the Forbes 400 (4 people) is black this year and that actually represents an all time high. For most of the list’s history, there were either no blacks or just one (usually Oprah) however even this all time high of 1% is misleading because half of them are arguably mulatto or even what racists used to call quadroon.

For centuries it’s been known that brain size is at least slightly linked to IQ which from a Darwinian perspective, should be at least slightly linked to wealth. Thus it’s absolutely fascinating that for decades, the richest black in America donned freakishly huge hats.

More recently, it’s been suggested that Ashkenazi ancestry is linked to high IQ (via genetic diseases like Tay Sachs) and so it’s equally fascinating that the man who has replaced Oprah as America’s richest “black” has a Jewish father and is probably the most intelligent black billionaire since Oprah herself. Although his politics are unevolved, he boasts a bachelor of Arts/Science from Haverford College and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Stanford University.

With a net worth of 11 figures, he’s far richer than Oprah ever was, but is he adaptable enough to hold the title of richest black in America for decades like she did, or is he just another flash in the pan, who will be pushed into the dustbin of black history by the next generation of new money? .