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The Blame Game: a Prelude to Racial Privilege

In order to fully understand an easily debatable and highly controversial policy, such as racial privilege, one must first understand the political and social climates that led up to it. Racial privilege has been practiced during two periods in America's past: the post-reconstruction era, via Jim Crow laws, and today, by way of affirmative action.
After Reconstruction in the American south, landowners reorganized their land in such a way that it could be farmed without the use of slaves. The most common structure employed sharecropping, in which the land owner divided his property into several plots of land, each farmed by different individuals who paid for the use of this land with a predetermined percentage of their harvested crop. At its onset, sharecropping was a racially diverse program. Boyer et all notes that "By 1880… white sharecroppers now outnumbered black ones, although a higher proportion of southern blacks,......

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