Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization. Really!

The benefits of federalism! Nutty municipalities and other communities and their nutty professor enablers get to do what they like best. 😊

This is a leftist ideology driven project to try to very selectively remedy pet issues/grievances of history!

Notice again the ideological, capitalized B in Black American.

"Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

Land-based reparations are also a form of redress for the territorial theft of colonialism. ...

Yet our research shows a growing number of municipalities and communities across the U.S. are quietly taking up the charge.

We are geographers who since 2021 have been documenting and analyzing over 225 examples of reparative programs underway in U.S. cities, states and regions. Notably, over half of them center land return. ..."

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization

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