Discrimination and Rights (Malik Speaking)
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The entire sharecropping regime of the early 20th century was made possible by the fact that land was never given to the former slaves.

Because whites owned most of the land, they were able to hold blacks in a position of subordination. But they held the land unjustly. All of the income that was made off of that land ownership --whatever rents and profits there were-- were based on injustice.

When you speak of the rights of property and the right of property owners to discriminate however they wish, you are assuming that they came by their property in a just fashion. Your own theory requires that. But it did not happen that way.

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