Black freedom fighters received no compensation while U.S. soldiers abroad did

Evidence

Black Americans helped build the economic foundation that has made the United States a global power, but, as the first chapter of this book shows, they have also played an unparalleled and uncompensated role in building our democracy itself. For generations, U.S. soldiers whose stated mission was to spread freedom abroad have received pensions, federal grants, healthcare, and burial assistance. But the Black foot soldiers who fought over many generations to spread freedom here received no measure of compensation, even as that fight cost them their homes, their land, their educations, their employment, and, too often, their lives. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1390

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle comparing how the nation compensates foreign vs domestic freedom fighters — the asymmetry itself is the argument.