Southern Democrats sit before me today and say that it is unfair to white southerners to allow negro men and their families to have even the smallest amount of a plantation owners land? What is unfair is the years of abuse that these poor black people faced, simply due to the color of their skin. White people in America have …show more content…
My answer for you is an astounding yes. Your ways of thinking clearly have not changed, considering this predicament we find ourselves in. You still believe that you are the ones who have been wronged through the emancipation of slaves, when in fact, you are the ones who did the wrongdoing. Imagine if that was your life, being treated like the scum on the floor, every day. You would want some kind of compensation once granted your freedom! Taking away land from the oppressors and giving to the oppressed is a perfectly right and just thing to do. Our own constitution discusses the idea that all men are created equal under God, which should means all men equal opportunities to