African Americans were enslaved in this country for centuries; our nation’s enormous wealth was built on their backs. When the awful practice finally ended, officially, in 1863, it lingered in the form of Jim Crow oppression for another century. While other oppressed groups — the Irish, the Italians — faced poverty and hatred, they could escape through hard work, education and assimilation, a route denied blacks, whose families had been shattered and whose very skin made us targets for endless persecution.
What we are looking for is Tax free status. Land and monetary reimbursement for the descendants of those who were enslaved/effected By Jim Crow laws.
If the US can pay reparations to other groups, they should be able to pay the people who built this country.