By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on June 16, 2022 [PUBLISHER'S WARNING: Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, and...

The United States government has never compensated the families of black lynching victims. The opposite is true for at least eleven white Italian-Americans who were lynched in 1891 in New Orleans. As the New Orleans lynchings have shown us, the disparate treatment of African-Americans occurs -- even in vigilante death cases.

The Homestead Act of 1862 was a 124-year government-sponsored land giveaway program for white European documented and undocumented migrants.