I'm glad you like it. Feel free to take it and run with it. It is not by any means my only fairly cogent idea. We can work together to develop several interesting concepts I have thought through, and others that I have heard here.
A friend of mine, on this very forum -- Southack, by name -- has developed the idea of 'political judo'. Never confront your ideological enemy directly; merely redirect his force to a place you want him to go.
While I may disagree with him only in the Second Amendment sphere -- that one needs direct confrontation -- I have used this concept to postulate several interesing 'judo throws' to some very vexing problems.
We should, and I believe we have, join forces. It is already clear to me you possess a prodigious mind.
there are 650 million acres of Federally owned land. That is about 30% of the total.
Since there are about 40 million blacks in America, we can't give each of them 40 acres.
What I suggest instead is to have them trace back their lineage (on their dime) to the time of slavery. If the family can PROVE they had an direct ancestor that was a slave at the end of the Civil War (when the promise was supposed to have been made), they can divide the 40 acres between the decendents.
By the time they figure it all out with the overlapping claims (what if you have two or more ancestors, what if one slave has 500 or 1000 descendents?) it will be ridiculous. Toss in the caveat that if the land is not homesteaded within 2 years of the granting of the land it returns to the Federal Government, and you have a real carnival on your hands.
Hey, it is nothing more than what they were promised in the first place. We could even toss in the mule for them to share.