I read that the “40 acres and a mule” never actually happend-at least in significant quantities.
Can someone who knows (a lot more than me) please clarify?
Being White today is dangerous. Posting “It’s OK to be White” causes panic and calls to the police. Colleges teach that “Whiteness” must be eliminated. Reparations. Race-based preferences. “Affirmative action.”
To them I say:
Yo, reparate THIS!
Don’t forget those who got a free one way ticket to Liberia.
Don’t forget those who got a free one way ticket to Liberia.
I support reparations. By my estimate they owe us $12 Trillion for all the money we handed out to them, of which was TOTALLY WASTED.
It appears they (speaking for their ancestors) are really sad about leaving their Motherland.
Perhaps, repatriation should be considered.
What difference does it make? The people living today were not harmed. As for reparations, 40 acres and a mule is insignificant to the TRILLIONS of dollars that have been given to the black race in the the endless stream of programs to lift them out of their “disadvantaged” status.
Some of my ancestors were driven from the Cherokee homelands. I don’t expect any reparations. Never mind all the broken treaties. By the way, all the programs have not done much to improve the lot of most Indians either.
For every $ given to a slave dependent, provide 2$ to the decendents of Union soldiers from the Civil War.
Pigford Obama’s reparations
They also bought land in Africa if they wanted to go home
An interesting anecdote from the period is one way how landholders managed to cheat sharecroppers out of their due payments.
The system was set up so that sharecroppers would grow their crops, then give them to the landowners to sell, receiving payment set by law, under the eye of the local Sheriff. However, side deals were allowed.
At the time, most sharecroppers were uneducated and their understanding of money was of low denomination coins. Banking and checks were unknown to them. So in the gathering of sharecroppers to get their pay, landholders would have checks in hand, for say $50 each. But then they would make a side offer.
You can have this piece of paper, or this old hat, full of shiny nickles and dimes. And you get to keep the hat.
Most of the time they would opt for the hat, not knowing what to do with that piece of paper. And most banks would not cash checks unless you had an account with them.
first, a DNA test. 2nd, if they take the $$ they have to go back to the country or area of their ancestors. and take their immediate family with them. and surrender their passports. Bye, Felicia.
Being in America IS reparations.
If they feel “enslaved” here, they can go back to the country of their origin.
I certainly hope that none of these reparation seeking individuals are on welfare and getting food stamps with free health care.
But they didn’t give each freedman an obamaphone and a free breakfast and lunch for each of their kids at school every day. It’s always going to be something more. Nothing will ever be solved.
Very few slaves ever got the promised land and critter. But 60+ years of entitled handouts long since made up for it.