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The Mormons kicked out of Missouri were free people before and after. They had access to all kinds of resources, were allowed to get an education, own land, acc

The Mormons kicked out of Missouri were free people before and after. They had access to all kinds of resources, were allowed to get an education, own land, accumulate wealth and (with limited exceptions) vote, etc. Meanwhile basically all Black people in America were enslaved for the next 30 years, millions died under slavery and millions were suddenly freed and given nothing. "Separate but equal" wasn't even for another 30 years and segregation & Jim Crow were another 70 years after that! By the time Black people were reasonably allowed to participate in US society, politics & business they had been forcibly held back in the only ways to get ahead (accumulating education, land and money) by hundreds of years.

omegaworks 6y ago
Yes. Any wealth accumulation even by free Black communities was repeatedly undermined and destroyed. The bombing of Black Wall Street (Greenwood-Tulsa) is the most infamous example: the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. Numerous examples exist of freedman communities being completely eradicated using public works projects. Entire towns flooded when it came to decisions to create dams and neighborhoods bulldozed when the interstate expressways were run through cities. https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1375263363471654918?s=20 https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/13752633634716549...
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. They weren't the only aerial bombings in the continental US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing