Here’s just how much I agree with you: 100%. Right after the Civil War, freed slaves (who were unconstitutionally imprisoned to begin with) were given land to live and farm on after the war ended under the land commission. But then the new president after Lincoln died, the Southern Monroe, decided that wasn’t working, so after a few months took the land away, gave it back to the whites and told the freed slaves the good news: sorry we took your land as U.S. citizens but you can now work and get paid for the whites who own this land. The president stole their land. Effectively restarting a type of endured servitude. Then enacted Jim Crow, stripping them of their voice and vote. One hundred years after that war end, blacks had to be given civil rights a third time in America in under a white president (LBJ)—first given under the Declaration and Constitution (which was color blind); second time after slavery with some new civil rights amendments; then a third time in the Civil Rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of 1965. Really! Three times. That’s no joke. Whites were given their civil rights just once (at the start same all— ‘liberty and justice for all). Reparations now!