Myth of Reparations | 40 Acres Minus Mule

Myth of Reparations | 40 Acres Minus Mule

George Floyd's murder by former police officer Derek Chauvin and the question of reparation is at the fulcrum of protests striving to express anger and a desire to rectify systemic racism and injustice. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explains how reparations originally stipulated that freed slaves would receive "400,000 acres of land; instead, we received Segregation, Jim Crow, and the Klu Klux Klan.

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