![]() fiercely critiqued the government for rejecting grants of land to African-Americans while officially opening up land in the Midwest to white farmers, funding land grant colleges for their education, and providing subsidies and other funding to prop up their farms. economy was engineered for the benefit of rich white people at the expense of African-Americans? A couple of years ago, TNC shared a video where Martin Luther King, Jr. I find it hard to disagree with this thesis based on the comprehensive evidence he marshaled in his landmark article making the case for reparations. TNC deeply feels that the economic system America has today was deliberately built not just on the backs of slaves, but also on the backs of African-Americans who lived in the days of Jim Crow laws and even since the major civil rights victories of the ‘60s. ![]() ![]() I wanted to chime in on the spat between Bernie Sanders and Ta-Nehisi Coates regarding Bernie’s rejection of reparations. ![]()
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