[Racehorse]

Yet we are apparently still fighting it 140 years later in 2006.

Well, some folks still believe their ancestors were promised forty acres and a mule.  Some of their descendants still want the land and the mule, plus interest.

Lots of silly stuff keeps the war simmering.

[Redleg Duke]

Between the whites, the war wounds had healed until the race pimps of the NAALCP figured out how, with help from the ACLU, they could dig into the scar and reopen the wound.

Let's not allow the race pimps, today's racists, turn our good natured ribbing into open warfare again!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Well, some folks still believe their ancestors were promised forty acres and a mule.

Had it been up to me, the freed slaves would have received land confiscated from the large plantations that they and their ancestors had worked for generations. Despite the uncomfortable specter of far left socialism's disrespect for property rights, it would have been an act of justice to compensate the freed men for generations of forced labor. Also it would have made the freed slaves less vulnerable to future exploitation at the hands of the antebellum elite and hastens the freedmen's progress into being secure taxpaying citizens.

Some of their descendants still want the land and the mule, plus interest.

The current reparations push lack both the justice of immediate land distribution and the utility of putting the newly freed slaves on a secure footing in a dangerous land and time.