In his essay "The Case for Reparations" Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about the struggles of having a black body in America. In one part of his essay, Coates talked about a man named Clyde Ross, whose family owned 40 acres of farmland, but because there was no protection for black farmers in the deep south back then, his family land was seized by the local whites leaving the family as sharecroppers on their own land. According to Coates, this was a reoccurring event. Many black families lost their land to this kind of injustice and nothing was done to stop it. This caught my attention because current day South Africa is experiencing a similar situation. In South Africa, the parliament passed a proposal that would allow the expropriation of land without
