Post-slavery discrimination continued to enrich white immigrants who never owned slaves

Evidence

What this argument misses is that even though chattel slavery legally ended with the Thirteenth Amendment, federal, state, and local governmental discrimination against black people, enabled by the judiciary, continued, as described in Part II of this book. The benefits that white immigrants and American citizens accrued from this discrimination were omnipresent. The Homestead Act of 1862 benefited white immigrants but not black Americans. Being able to live wherever they wanted, work wherever they wanted, and buy whatever they wanted (if they had the money) remained a unique privilege extended primarily to white Americans, including white immigrants when Justice Scalia’s father came to America. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 569

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the Scalia argument in 568; the Homestead Act example recurs throughout Brown’s saturation argument.