Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Coleman Hughes on His Viral Argument on The View" video.

  1. In 1968, just weeks before his murder, King said, “At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.” The Homestead Act did not bar "Negros" from the West, in a recent episode of the PBS show "Finding Your Roots", Henry Louis Gates found a woman, former slave, who homesteaded in Oregon and gained ownership of the land, not an easy task, as the majority of homesteads failed. MLK Jr went on in the speech to expose the racism of the Agricultural Department of the Federal Government, which is well documented. "Homesteaders included citizens, immigrants seeking naturalization, women, men, African Americans, and whites. American Indians, who were not recognized as U.S. citizens, were excluded." H.R. 125, The Homestead Act, printed House bill with Senate changes, March 3, 1862
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  2. Coleman was arguing for class reparations, not race reparations, Sunny argued to the authority of MLK Jr's support for reparation which Coleman pushed back on, citing MLK Jr's book "Why we Can't Wait".
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