"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" - Barrack and Bobby McGee What happened to those '40 acres and a mule', the land promised to former slaves as reparation? After the abolishment of slavery, blacks were kept down by racism and segregation. Society is still blaming blacks for the problems created by wealthy whites of the past, and their thinking of superiority and greed, which purposely created the black reservations, called ghettoes. Blacks were not expected to succeed. But, thanks to the help of some whites, some blacks progressed. It is now the 21st century. The...