Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/15/made-towns.html

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In before the pro-rationalization apologist fantasy…“It’s just business.”

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This reminds me of Yorktown history, where the government/military and developers have been taking land:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003197507

“We’re a post-racial society! A black man was elected President, and the evils of slavery are far in our past. Why can’t they get over it…?”

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Israel does it better:

Dead serious: expropriate all property from White people. The property gained through theft, “legal” chicanery, good ol’ racism, old boys’ networks - expropriate it as repartations.

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Checks notes

Wow. That’s pretty much all of the USA.

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