African-Americans were never given a fighting chance. They were freed as slaves and promised 40 acres and a mule. Instead they were freedmen with no place to go and nothing to call their own. While 40 acres and a mule could never repay the slaves for all they endured, it would have given them a chance to make a living. Part of the race problems that the United States have faced is that African-Americans still have nothing …showed first 75 words of 323 total…

…showed last 75 words of 323 total…worth. This perhaps would have decreased some of the race problems because they would have been given the same opportunities that other Americans was. African-Americans wasn’t asking for much, just the opportunity to make a living. Maybe 40 acres and a mule wouldn’t have made a big difference in the race problems that the U.S. face, but at least everyone would have had an equal opportunity to make a good name for themselves.