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taschenge | March 23, 2009 at 09:03 am
Racist Atrocities Soar As <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />America Regurgitates Its Soul
Over the last two years we have witnessed the virtual Second Evil Birth of Jim Crow in America betrayed though the iconography witnessed during the 2008 Campaign.
It kinda makes you go
humm! Because, ain’t nobody messing with them!
“The struggle for freedom in America is a struggle to free Black men’s bodies and White men’s minds!”
Fredrick Douglass
Even after spending so much energy over just the last two years, judiciously documenting such a shamefully abundant season of extraordinarily bizarre racist atrocities occurring all of a sudden throughout the entire United States, still I was somewhat taken aback. Long after chattel slavery had ultimately come to an end, my Ancestors on Neal Street saw the world different than most people. They were aware that the Reconstruction had been betrayed simply because that idea kept being thrown up in their face. No longer a valued commodity like a shoe, or a horse, or a tree, these were bitter painful years for Black people. Most of the innocent Black victims of Jim Crow’s Glory Days would see nothing even remotely resembling justice; only a bizarre bloodlust for Black life. Most Americans are aware of this history. Read More:
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