After the civil war the U.S. government let people who took up arms against their country keep land they had stolen and worked through stolen labor, rather than redistribute it to the laborers who had been treated as chattel.
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In some cases, the U.S. government actually took back land from the freedmen that had been redistributed. The idea that white people should be able to reap the profits of an unjust caste system, even if elements of it are overturned, is not foreign to this nation.
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While there are lots of arguments to be had about the merits of how land redistribution should work in South Africa, it's hardly surprising that American pundits of a particular ideological stripe would feel that white farmers are entitled to all of it. That's what happened here.
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It's also yet another way to stoke & exacerbate racial fear. To counter it, we need to respond by speaking clearly about race ourselves:https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-answer-to-gop-dog-whistles-democrats-should-talk-more-about-race-not-less/2018/08/22/7cfa4d3a-a184-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.d1fd50448868 …
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