https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
INVESTIGATIVE STORY by VAN NEWKIRK:
The Great Land Robbery The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms
I. Wiped Out
“You ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, swatting at the squadrons of giant, fluttering mosquitoes that had invaded the interior the last time she opened a window. I was spending the day with her family as they worked their fields just outside Ruleville, in Mississippi’s Leflore County. With her weathered brown hands, Scott-White gave me a pork sandwich wrapped in a grease-stained paper towel. I slapped my leg. Mosquitoes can bite through denim, it turns out.
Cotton sowed with planters must be chopped—thinned and weeded manually with hoes—to produce orderly rows of fluffy bolls. The work is backbreaking, and the people who do it maintain that no other job on Earth is quite as demanding. I had labored long hours over other crops, but had to admit to Scott-White, a 60-something grandmother who’d grown up chopping, that I’d never done it. “Then you ain’t never worked,” she replied.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
FILM MAKER Spike Lee owns a company called 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks ( 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, 75 S. Elliott Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217 )
The Same types of Murderous History that Happened in South Africa and the African Continent, has Happened on the American Continents including North America and South America.
Destruction of the Indigenous People and Native Americans and the Mexican/Hispanic people as well as much more so to the Black People or African-American and Dark-Skinned people as a whole has been much worse applied as “SYSTEMATIC” and “POISONED POLICIES” within America and even though the Modern day systems, operate in Plain sight, the “EVIL/Hateful/Satanic” continuous systems operate within the Undercurrents and back offices and board rooms of America.
I would “IMPLORE” Mr. SPIKE LEE and 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, 75 S. Elliott Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
https://www.40acres.com/ https://www.40acres.com/
to get in touch and Produce and Make this FILM!!!