“Even now, you deny us,”
Calls of duty roared from necks scared by boot marks
Lynched and torn from ancestral homes,
Ignored, dismissed after venturing forth in Liberty’s name
Pleading eternal for only what Washington provided their brothers in arms
Still, a modern refrain eclipses justice
“Eh, aren’t reparations unfair to me?”
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A/N:
Now, I'm not here to start any controversy.....................................................................................................JK I totally am. While not explicitly discriminatory, the debilitating constructs of the Jim Crowe era meant Black veterans were disproportionally denied the benefits of what could be described as the most impactful economic bill in American history. We're also not talking white powdered wig history here. When the bill expired, Elvis was smashing the charts, the NBC Peacock was Peacocking, and my personal hero Anthony Bourdain was born. These are wrongs that the clock to proper remediation is still ticking on, and awareness costs you nothing. In fact, there's legislation to do exactly that!
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