Why did so many folks in so many towns protest black lives matter now again since the equality and mal-treatment of blacks have been historic? Could it be that the pandemic woke people up as to what is important to fight for? Is it because choke holds on black men are now being filmed and shared immediately everywhere? The problems facing black people go much further than knees to their necks even thought that must be the most horrific torture anyone should ever endure. While blacks were fighting for equality ever since the slave ships brought them here to America, white folks were building equity. Getting wealthier in a very discriminatory way even after Lincoln freed the slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation and the brutal Civil War had to happen.
Sure there was the Homestead Act after all the slaves were freed but it didn't help them at all in society. Andrew Jackson then promised Americans 40 acres of land and a mule if they wanted it in the vast unclaimed lands in the Midwest. Blacks needn't apply because they were ineligible for the program. Whites were just given millions of acres of land then.
The Federal Housing Administration in the New Deal by FDR from 1933 to 1939 didn't do anything to help black folks. The program specifically said that the low cost government loans were not eligible to black folks.
There was the G.I. Bill in Long Island after World War II that provided low cost homes in a development called Levittown that said no black returning soldiers could cave a property there. Black lives should matter economically in equity as well as racial equality. Both can be achieved simultaneously if things really was equal opportunity for all. Crime would be down. Educational opportunities would be up. Better jobs would be available and we all should be able to co-habitate without any prejudice because prejudice wouldn't exist when all are making money and all work together to form a better society for us all.
The Federal Housing Administration in the New Deal by FDR from 1933 to 1939 didn't do anything to help black folks. The program specifically said that the low cost government loans were not eligible to black folks.
There was the G.I. Bill in Long Island after World War II that provided low cost homes in a development called Levittown that said no black returning soldiers could cave a property there. Black lives should matter economically in equity as well as racial equality. Both can be achieved simultaneously if things really was equal opportunity for all. Crime would be down. Educational opportunities would be up. Better jobs would be available and we all should be able to co-habitate without any prejudice because prejudice wouldn't exist when all are making money and all work together to form a better society for us all.
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