40 acres and a mule

It’s Friday again so that means its time to sweat the small stuff. And away we go. As a “black” man, I’m always interested in shit that deals with other “black” folk. On this site I’ve never made it a secret that as a people, “black” people that is, I’ve always felt that we need to come to the fact that no one owes us nothing. The only way we can go forward as a people is as a people on our own. No handout’s, no woe is me shit, no I’ve been held back for 400 years and it’s the Man’s fault for all my problems. Call me an Uncle Tom; sell out, what the fuck ever, I don’t give a rat’s fat ass. Which brings me to this, over in Richmond, Virginia; a Robert Foster was sentenced to thirteen years in jail for defrauding the IRS. He did his daughter’s taxes and claimed $500,000 for slavery compensation. He achieved this lofty sum by figuring what the modern day equivalent of 40 acres and a mule would be. This was the deal that Congress wanted to give all former slaves after the Civil War, until President Andrew Johnson told Congress to go stick in up their asses. This also was the same president that was impeached by Congress later for being a fuckup, go figure. On his daughter’s tax forms Bob claimed she had overpaid taxes on long-term capital gains and listed “Black Capital Investments” as the source of the gains. His daughter received a fatass refund check and brought herself a brand new Benz among other things. So the IRS nabbed her ass too, claiming she was a willing partner and knew what was up. Now I’m all down with our government payin for it’s past sins and fuckup. Be it slavery, locking up certain ethnic nationals during time of war, Bush, whatever. But dumbassing your way thru shit ain’t the way to get things done. All that’ll get you is down time in somebody’s federal prison or worse.