Elle Driver
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From what my grandma tells me in Louisiana it was against the law for a black woman to refuse experimentation similar to it being illegal to be unemployed. Very obscure laws set to keep systemic racism in place.
So let's talk about the 13th Amendment..the one that freed the slaves...
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newworldafro
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I'll admit, I never peeped the language in the 13th until a few months ago. OP since you are HBCU law school afilliated, peep this thread I made awhile back .... give me your feedback and anyone else who wants to respond ..... http://www.thecoli.com/threads/sohh...ion-bill-of-rights-being-slaveholders.316332/
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Elle Driver
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That's systemic racism in a nutshell. It's a system designed to keep us in our "place". The fact that there were "free people of color" even angered them.Sharecropping, which was virtually slavery-lite. "Freed" slaves were given room/board in former slave quarters in exchange for their labor. And some of the slave masters had the nerve to charge them for necessaries.
Experimentation like in Tuskegee experiments? I don't doubt that for a second.
Elle Driver
Veteran
Even earlier than that, they were experimenting on black women's bodies. White people have an obsession with black bodies and legit believe we don't feel pain. It's a system that now works implicitly but with the advent of phones people can no longer deny it.
Explains Sara Baartman and their borderline-creepy obsession with professional athletes.
Ghosts of Jim Crow, Reconstruction and the Rise, The New Jim Crow will help you out. It also helps if you study the law.
cosign,
good foundation there... general knowledge of philosophy, economics, and law is a must for all of us, IMO. I mean just a basic understanding of who we are as individuals, what inalienable rights we have, and how we may go about pursuing our wishes.
LinusCaldwell
From The Eastside with Love
Will it get the burn and recognition it deserves tho @OG_StankBrefs @Abogado @Walt @houston911 @Mr Hate Coffee @JoelB
So, my trifecta of accredited material that really hit every element and issue with respect to the history and issues of American Society's subjugation of Black People is this...
Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad (President of the Schomburg Center in Harlem)
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Slavery By Another Name - Douglas Blackmon
Those three books literally sealed the deal and had me end my career as a Prosecutor.
Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad (President of the Schomburg Center in Harlem)
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Slavery By Another Name - Douglas Blackmon
Those three books literally sealed the deal and had me end my career as a Prosecutor.
I only read THJC out of those 3 books and that alone opened my eyes when I already thought I was awake. I'll check out the other two.
Prisons still practice this