The Institute for Black Wealth Empowerment (IBWE)
Think tank specializing in Black economic empowerment through collective investment strategies, especially Bitcoin
The Institute for Black Wealth Empowerment (IBWE) is dedicated to addressing and eliminating the persistent wealth gap between Black Americans and other racial groups, particularly white Americans. Through comprehensive research, data analysis, and evidence-based solutions, we illuminate the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of racial wealth inequality.
Our mission encompasses four core pillars:
We recognize bitcoin as the primary vehicle for Black wealth empowerment in America. Our transformative 20-year goal is facilitating collective bitcoin acquisition at an unprecedented scale: Black Americans owning 5.4-8.6% of the total bitcoin supply. This ambitious target is designed to achieve household wealth parity with white American households. This strategic positioning in the emerging digital economy is essential to prevent the entrenchment of a permanent economic underclass and ensure Black Americans not only participate in but substantially benefit from the wealth creation of the digital age.
We conduct rigorous analysis of wealth disparities, documenting both the historical policies that created these gaps and the ongoing systemic barriers that perpetuate them. We translate complex economic data into accessible insights that inform policy and community action, with particular emphasis on demonstrating the transformative potential of large-scale bitcoin ownership for closing the racial wealth gap.
Following our bitcoin acquisition strategy, we advocate for collective economic empowerment through cooperative business models, strategic investments, and community-controlled financial institutions. By pooling resources and expertise, we create pathways for sustainable wealth creation that individual efforts alone cannot achieve. Our cooperative approach enables the scale of bitcoin acquisition necessary to achieve our 20-year wealth transformation goals.
We promote the establishment of Black-owned businesses and investment vehicles that keep capital circulating within Black communities. Our approach emphasizes building economic ecosystems that create jobs, generate wealth, and strengthen community self-determination, leveraging the appreciation of our collective bitcoin holdings to fund sustainable community development initiatives.
The IBWE believes that economic justice requires both individual financial literacy and collective action, with significant bitcoin ownership serving as the foundation for generational wealth-building that can finally close America’s racial wealth gap.
Vision Statement for IBWE
A future where Black Americans achieve economic sovereignty and wealth parity—where the racial wealth gap is not a statistic of the past, but a closed chapter of history, and where every Black household owns their stake in the digital economy, ensuring generational prosperity for centuries to come.
Extended Vision
The Institute for Black Wealth Empowerment envisions an America where:
Economic Justice is Reality
The 400-year wealth gap between Black and White Americans has been eliminated through strategic ownership of appreciating digital assets, particularly Bitcoin.
Ownership Replaces Exclusion
Black Americans control significant portions of the global digital economy, representing proportional economic power that matches our population and contributions to society.
Financial Sovereignty is Universal
Every Black household has direct ownership of incorruptible, unseizable wealth that cannot be devalued by inflation, discriminatory lending, or systemic exclusion.
Generational Wealth is the Norm
Black children inherit not struggle, but prosperity—growing up in households with substantial assets, educational opportunities, and the economic foundation to pursue their dreams without systemic barriers.
Collective Power Transforms Communities
Through coordinated economic action, Black communities build self-sustaining ecosystems of businesses, investments, and institutions that create jobs, circulate capital, and strengthen self-determination.
Economic Parity Drives Social Change
With wealth parity achieved, Black Americans wield proportional political influence, educational access, health outcomes, and social mobility—fundamentally reshaping American society toward true equity.
We envision a world where economic justice is not a distant dream, but the lived reality of every Black American—where ownership, sovereignty, and prosperity are our inheritance, not our aspiration.