African-Americans were never given a fighting chance. They were freed as slaves and promised 40 acres and a mule. Instead they were freedmen with no place to go and nothing to call their own. While 40 acres and a mule could never repay the slaves for all they endured, it would have given them a chance to make a living. Part of the race problems that the United States have faced is that African-Americans still have nothing …showed first 75 words of 323 total…

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