Why White People (and others) Don’t Qualify for Freedmen Reparations

The recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case about affirmative action has the media cycle on fire. Most notably, some are surprised by the fact that American Freedmen history is all over the SCOTUS majority opinion, concurrences and dissents. That’s because affirmative action came out of the need to redress the badges and incidents of slavery that arose from chattel slavery and continued into the Jim Crow era for the freed slaves (Freedmen) and their descendants, like Martin Luther King Jr (a Negro/Freedmen). But the real shocker for most was the prevalence of case law that outlined the reparatory nature of government actions, laws, and programs targeted specifically and even exclusively at multigenerational Black Americans (Negroes/Freedmen). <a href="https://pameladeniselong.medium.com/why-white-people-and-others-dont-qualify-for-freedmen-reparations-4c1ab53575ae">Click Here</a>