This country wasn't built for persons of color. Keyword: FOR

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1. Spot on. If the principle of compounding were in effect on the hundreds of years of dawn-to-dusk...

unpaid labor of the hundreds of thousands of enslaved human beings during the years of slavery, the entire US Treasury could not pay it. Don't even talk about the following Jim Crow/sharecropper years and institutionalize racism that exist to this day that deprives people of color of fair compensation.

Yet a call for reparations of modest proposals like college tuition, small business grants, job training, community centers and the like (no individual checks cut mind you), is met with stone cold silence and outright refusal.

And then many have the gall to wonder why black family wealth is one tenth of that of white families who've had centuries of wealth passed down from generation to generation, even if it's just modest home or a piece of jewelry or a small sum of cash. That's better than the nothing the formerly enslaved people got after slavery was ended.

They started with nothing after the Emancipation Proclamation and made their way in a hostile country.

The promised 40 acres and a mule never materialized.

It must be especially infuriating to the racists that many of us still rose despite the obstacles that still continue to be thrown in out paths.