Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen

[Drich]

Drich, how do you feel about the fact that he doesn't realize brown congresspeople can be "from" the U.S.?

when did he say this?

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All the people who don’t want to accept that abortion is constitutional should just leave too. 😉

You gotta love how antithetical that sentiment is to not only American democracy itself but even the statements Trump himself made to those four Congresswomen.

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Also, Drich, that whole 40 acres and a mule thing? It didn’t even last a year before President Johnson reneged on that promise. Most of the land promised went back to white farmers and virtually all that was given to freedmen would eventually be taken away from them anyway.

Read your own source material REV.Moron..

40 acres and a mule was orginally slated to happen 
Lincoln had long supported colonization as a plausible solution to the problem of slavery, and pursued colonization plans throughout his presidency.[131][132] In 1862, Congress approved $600,000 to fund Lincoln's plan for colonizing blacks "in a climate congenial to them", and granted Lincoln broad executive powers to orchestrate colonization.[132][133]Lincoln immediately created an Emigration Office within the Department of the Interior and instructed the State Department to acquire suitable land.[132] The first major planconsidered would have sent employed free blacks as coal miners in Chiriquí Province, Panama (then part of Gran Colombia). Volunteers were promised 40 acres of land and a job in the mines; Senator , whom Lincoln had appointed to oversee the plan, had also purchased mules, yokes, tools, wagons, seeds, and other supplies to support a potential colony. Pomeroy accepted 500 of the 13,700 people who applied for the job. However, the plan was canceled by the end of the year—due perhaps to Latin American and British opposition, or to a discovery that Chiriquí's coal was of poor quality.

then it was open up to 46 million acres in florida mississippi and lousiana all prime swamp land. but the program shut down not due to the lack of funding but due to the lack of intrest and partisipants. No one wanted to move and work their own claims when they could work with their former masters. gotta remember a lot of slaves grew up working and living with their masters and that was all they wanted or knew and did not care to change. like it or not many where happy as not ever plantation was a version of the 'roots' plantation. most where family farms and the farmers did not live much better than the slaves themselves. they worked togather and eeked out a living togther.

Now there where big plantation which where hard on everyone including fellow white farmers because they often set prices in the market that would starve out the smaller farms, and then buy up all of their lands and holding and then when they owned everything they jacked up the prices because there was no compentition. these mega plantation did exist but where few and far between. Even so most of the slaves elected to stay rather than go and claim their 40 acres and a mule which was later uped to 80 and 120 to try and drum up interest.
n December 1865, Congress began to debate the "Second Freedmen's Bureau bill", which would have opened three million acres of unoccupied public land in Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas for homesteading.[153] (An amendment to allow black homesteading on public lands in the North was defeated.) Congress passed the bill in February 1866 but could not override Johnson's veto.[154] (Congress passed a more limited "Second Freedmen's Bureau Bill" in July 1866, and did override Johnson's veto.)
Howard continued to push for Congress to appropriate land for allocation to freedmen. With support from Thaddeus Stevens and William Fessenden, Congress began to debate a new bill for black settlement of public lands in the South. The result was the Southern Homestead Act, which opened 46,398,544.87 acres of land in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to homesteading; initially 80-acre parcels (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter 160-acre parcels (quarter section). Johnson signed this bill and it went into effect on June 21, 1866. Until January 1, 1867, the bill specified, only free blacks and loyal whites would be allowed access to these lands.[155]
Howard, concerned about competition with Confederates that would begin in 1867, ordered Bureau agents to inform free blacks about the Homesteading Act.[156] Local commissioners did not disseminate the information widely,[157] and many freedpeople were unwilling to venture into unknown territory, with insufficient supplies, based only on the promise of land after five years.[158]
Those who did attempt homesteading encountered unreliable bureaucracy that often did not comply with federal law. They also faced extremely harsh conditions, usually on low quality land that had been rejected by white settlers in years past. Nevertheless, free blacks entered about 6,500 claims to homesteads; about 1000 of these eventually resulted in property certificates.[159]

(all from your citation)