reparations

[Louis Proyect]

At 12:08 PM 2/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Lou
>Can you document this? It is of some historical interest.
>Rod
>
>Louis Proyect wrote:
>2) the United States
>Government promised ex-slaves forty acres and a mule and did not make
>good
>on that promise;

Absolutely. I just spoke to Wanda who sits 3 cubicles down from me. She
swears that nobody in her family ever got 40 acres and a mule. Furthermore,
she says that she favors reparations right now and no more fooling around.

Louis Proyect

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