Great reply, I’m checking out the links right now. I might as well explain how I came to this subject matter. I grew up in Los Angeles poor. My mother was a business owner and did well for a single mother. My father left when I was a child and they divorced years later. After highschool I joined the U.S. Marines and had a successful tour while attending a local community college. I am now transferring to UC Berkeley. My mother died while I was in the service and I was the sole benefactor to a 100k life insurance policy. I’ve invested it well and have made an overall 178% percent return.
I don’t identify my self as a minority personally or on applications even though I am half latin american. Regardless if it is formally incorrect I identify with my self as white Anglo Saxon Protestant. No one helped me gain my knowledge in the financial sector or with my successful investments. I’ve always been hungry and have always had a plan yet I feel that I am being punished for my large brokerage holdings even though my veteran/very underprivileged background on its own would bring all sorts of preferential treatment in loans, educational programs, etc.. Which I would not exploit in any situation anyways.
