HOW THE US GOVERNMENT HELPED TO CREATE WHITE WEALTH AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. INFORMATION THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW Here are 11 ways federal government giveaways gave an economic head start to white people while excluding people of color. 1. Free land White Revolutionary War veterans were given nine million acres of Indian land. 2. Legalized squatting In 1841, the U.S. government legalized squatting, allowing white settlers to take over Native American land. 3. Military-enforced squatting The U.S. Government helped enforce squatting by employing the U.S. Army out west to beat back Native Americans from land coveted by white settlers. 4. More free land In addition to conquering half of Mexico, the U.S. Government reclaimed Latino landowners’ land for minor infractions such as missing paperwork or back taxes, and then sold it to Anglo settlers at a minor cost. 5. Even more free land The Homestead Act of 1862 provided free or very inexpensive land was provided by the government to 1.5 million white families. 6. Revoked promises to slaves Following the Civil War, freed slaves were promised ‘40 acres and a mule.’ Following Lincolns death, this promise was revoked and land was returned to its previous White owners. 7. Preferential treatment of white workers Through the New Deal, the U.S. Government provided minimum wages, union rights, and social security to industrial workers, almost all of whom were white. These same benefits, however, were denied to agricultural and domestic workers, most of whom were people of color. 8. Government-sponsored aid Government-sponsored aid was provided to struggling white farmers while denying it to most black farmers from the 1930’s right through the 1980s. 9. GI Bill benefits Provided free college education, vocational training, and cheap mortgages to nearly two million white WWII vets via the GI Bill, while simultaneously blocking most veterans of color from accessing the same benefits. 10. Neighborhood investment through homeownership Invested in infrastructure to expand suburban neighborhoods where white households were able to access government-subsidized mortgages while urban, inner-city neighborhoods were red-lined. 11. Tax breaks Tax breaks on investment income (such as dividends, capital gains and inheritances), which are disproportionately owned by wealthy white people, have been cut and lowered much more than taxes on income from work. “The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; for Black families, its $25,000. The belief that Whites achieved this 20-1 wealth advantage by HARD WORK is an absurd and a historical fantasy.” Nonetheless, the airwaves are filled with the self-righteous pronouncements of Caucasian commentators anxious to “advise” Blacks to “work hard” and to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” if they want to succeed in America. Not only do they seek to invent a fraudulent fairy tale that whitewashes a very bloody legacy, but they also aim to reaffirm the notion that “non-Whites” are naturally inferior and lazy and are thus responsible for having comparatively nothing. The truth is a whole lot nastier than that. White folks have been receiving massive welfare or government aid since the very beginning of America. #themoreyouknow
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:48:51 +0000
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