Actually, Tillman is a "useful" idiot.Consider, as Laz did, that our government owns one third of all land in America. That land is not on the Market. That land isn't helping our economy.
So turning over 40 acres of government land as "reparations" or welfare or land grants or whatever...would soon inject a fair amount of wealth back into our system (after all, some of that land *would* be sold back on the Market).
In the meantime, such reparations would turn Democratic Blacks decisively against our enviro-radicals who want our government to buy up all private land. The Enviro-nuts don't want *any* land to be privately owned, and they want to fight any sale of public government land to the private Market.
Yet how could such PC radicals be against 40 acres of "reparations?"
Now admittedly, this is a pretty cynical way of thinking, but you've got to admit, the enviro-radicals would play their part in fighting such reparations (and that would have larger political consequences).
Sometimes, such as in judo and politics, you can score an advantage by using your own opponents moves against them.
Moving government land back into the private market would do that very thing, were we ever to become so cold-hearted and cynical.
Republicans freed slaves. It isn't out of the question that they could next free our land.