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We might honestly say that our position was best described
100 years ago by a black Georgian, Henry McNeill Turner, who
in 1868, trying to describe conditions for black Georgians
of his era, correctly described our economic position now.
He said then: "We have pioneered a civilisation here. We have
built up your country. We have worked in your fields we
have gathered your harvests, for 250 years. We, who number
hundreds of thousands.. have not a foot of land to call our own.
We are strangers in the land of our birth, without money, without
education, without aid, without a roof to cover us while we live or
clay to cover us when we die."
It might be argued that conditions have improved a
bit since then, but objectively, things are still pretty
much the same.