How the U.S. Use Black Pain to Enrich Everyone But Black People

For over 150 years, Foundational Black Americans have fought, protested, and died to push this nation forward—yet they remain the only group in U.S. history denied direct government reparations. From the betrayal of 40 acres and a mule, to exclusion from the GI Bill and New Deal, to modern diversity policies that uplift everyone but them, the debt remains unpaid.

This video breaks down how FBA pain and sacrifice became the fuel for policy changes that benefited white women, immigrants, LGBTQ groups, and refugees—while Black descendants of slavery continue to wait. We expose the receipts, the timeline, and the truth the system keeps burying.

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• Massie, Victoria. “White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents.” Vox, May 25, 2016. (Provides statistics on affirmative action’s primary beneficiaries in employment and education, noting white women gained significantly) 27 28 .
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• The Hechinger Report (PBS Newshour). “Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering...” Oct. 2021. (Cato Laurencin quoted on how broad diversity categories dilute support for Black students) 32 33 .
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• Ponce, Katherine. “Black Funding Denied: Where are we two years later?” NCRP, Mar. 2, 2023. (Analyzes philanthropy after 2020; notes only 2% of community foundation giving in 2020 targeted Black communities; includes quote about white-led orgs using movement rhetoric to get funds opened by Black activists) 66 36 .
• National WWII Museum. “Redress and Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration.” (Recounts the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which gave each surviving Japanese American internee $20,000 and an apology) 40 .
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• Sonmez, Felicia. “Spending bill directs $7 billion to resettle Afghan evacuees...” Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2021. (Reports that Congress appropriated a total of $13.3 billion in 2021 for Afghan refugee resettlement, including housing, education, and other services) 44 45 .
•Senate Appropriations Committee. “Emergency Security Supplemental...2024.” (Highlights $2.334 billion for refugee assistance, including extending benefits to Ukrainian parolees arriving in 2024, similar to 2022–23 entrants) 47 .
• Pew Research Center. “Black and White Americans are far apart in their views of reparations for slavery.” Nov. 28, 2022. (Survey data: only 30% of U.S. adults support reparations; stark racial divide in support – 77% of Black Americans vs 18% of whites) 51 53 .
• Economic Policy Institute. “Five principles for making state and local reparations plans reparative.” Oct. 2022. (Summarizes Darity and Mullen’s criteria: federal plan needed, focus on closing wealth gap; notes H.R. 40 never got a House vote in 32 years) 57 52 .
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