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fellow_human@lemmy.zip to historymemes@piefed.social
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Context: So the whole ’40 acres and a mule’ thing was a real promise made to newly freed slaves after the Civil War. It was supposed to be their fresh start, but the government never actually came through. This meme is just comparing that broken promise to ordering a pepperoni pizza and getting three tiny sad pepperonis instead.
pepperoni and cheese were unchecked, so no complaining
fbn@slrpnk.net 1 day ago well, where would the money come from? from the slaveowner reparations fund?
be serious!
And where did it got us.
We work to work to earn the right to work.
To earn the right to give, ourselves the right to buy, ourselves the right to live, to earn right to die.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 day ago
Fun fact: veterans of the war were also functionally abandoned by the US gov and many of them headed west, creating most of the havoc that first nations there suffered.
In now-Alberta, Treaty 7 was created and done explicitly because of them creating poisoned whiskey and attacking, raping and pillaging from first nations in now-Canada. The RCMP were created as a means to prevent the attacks.