Many people are unaware of the various white advantages that have been offered legally in our country, falsely thinking that slavery was the only significant differentiation. In reality, things like redlining, housing discrimination, and other historic racialized practices offered great advantages, socially and economically, to white households. Just one example is the Homestead Act of 1862, which “gave millions of acres to white settlers…. Overall, 1.5 million families got ownership of 246 million acres of land from the various homestead programs, nearly as much land as California and Texas
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