Its not based in DNA percentage. It's based on whether you are a direct decedent of a family member who either had their farm land stolen or were denied mortgages right after WW2 during the suburban housing boom.
@AroundTheWorld You love Israel though I have a gut feeling your love for Israel stems more from your hate of Muslims than actually loving Israel. But I digress. Was reparations for the Holocaust through allied nations carving out a home land for them Nazi like ideology? Is there a DNA purity test to determine "Jewness" to be able to migrate to Israel? So I'm assuming that's Nazi ideology?
I am not sure that specific amount of dilution would take place. It isn't about a percentage. It's about direct lineage.
You keep throwing this around. You need to support the assertion. What was actually promised, who promised it, what authority did they have to make such a promise, what appropriations were made for it etc etc.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-am...history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/ This is a good starting place.
Another example of the failure of our education system. This is why we need classes about this stuff.
The US federal government technically did keep their promise. The issue was that the entire white Southern population didn't care for property rights of former slaves and even the cops down south helped white families kick out black families from their property through force and intimidation. I mean this was one of the main goals of the KKK to make sure all black property owners in their region get kicked out.
So on January 12, 1865, The U.S. Secretary of War and a general in the Federal army... decided, themselves, without Congress, to issue Special Field Order No. 15.... granting 400,000 acres of land to former slaves (not a mule) and that didn't hold up? What authority did they have to issue such an order or make such a promise? And by June, “40,000 freedmen had been settled on 400,000 acres of ‘Sherman Land.’ ” By the way, Sherman later ordered that the army could lend the new settlers mules; hence the phrase, “40 acres and a mule.” So, no promise of a mule? And what happened to this astonishingly visionary program, which would have fundamentally altered the course of American race relations? Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor and a sympathizer with the South, overturned the Order in the fall of 1865, and, as Barton Myers sadly concludes, “returned the land along the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts to the planters who had originally owned it” — to the very people who had declared war on the United States of America. So Sherman and Stanton didn't actually have the authority to do this? Big surprise.
The only failure is the misrepresentation thrown around by @FranchiseBlade and others... I actually ask relevant questions about claims and then show how you and others are misrepresenting things.
If I'm misrepresenting things please tell me what I'm misrepresenting. Actually use the words you learned in school to explain WHY and WHAT.
@HTM I asked what other groups you would include with blacks and native Americans? Your response? How do you feel about Jim Crow in the south and a non legislated Jim Crow in the north? How does you think the affects things? Can we at least invest in these communities?
Yet, they acting on behalf of the U.S. government made the promise. If you wish to remove the pickup truck from the reparations that would be okay, I'm sure. Are you saying the government didn't make the promise?
