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Texas wrote Black exclusion into law the very first year after freedom, and how our people built anyway. Forty acres and a mule never materialized. Instead, the Texas Black Codes criminalized Black movement and labor bargaining, keeping freedpeople tied to plantations by another name.

The 1866 Homestead Act specifically excluded African Americans from accessing public land. The state said in statute: the people who worked this soil for generations can own none of it.

So freedpeople bought land wi…

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Dayne Rathbone

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When content made by no one takes over parts of the internet that are supposed to be human, it pollutes the commons and makes it hard to discover and hear human voices. When readers have to wonder if what they’re reading is real, it undermines trust in authorship and threatens the livelihood of writers—including those who use AI tools thoughtfully to produce work they believe in.

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