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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Old Confederate Soldiers Never Die
Old Confederate soldiers never die,Never die, never die,Old Confederate soldiers never die,They simply become memorialized.
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Tagged "A, Confederacy, Confederate army, Confederate memorials, Confederate Monuments, Confederate statues, CSA
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The “Cancel-culture” Conundrum
If I hear one more white person say “Cancel-culture…” “Cancel-culture” is the latest buzz term being used by Trumpeteers, including Ivanka Trump, and as with almost everything that comes out of the Oval Office in these times, it’s a false … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Politics, race, Slavery
Tagged African Diaspora, Alexanderia Ocasio-Cortez, cancel-culture, Civil War, Confederacy, Goya, Ivanka Trump, little white lie, Ted Yoho, Trump University, white privilege, white supremacy
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A Comparison of New York State Laws and Regulations and Slave Codes
In the mid-1980s, while doing research on an essay, which I would entitle, “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,” I came across something startling. I had already seen the connection between slavery and imprisonment, from the very beginning of the … Continue reading
Posted in crime, Lest We Forget, race, Slavery
Tagged 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Alabama Slave Code of 1852, Andrew Hacker, Bill Clinton, Black Codes, chain gangs, Civil War, Confederate memorials, Confederate Monuments, Confederate statues, Convict Leasing, Hayes-Tilden Compromise, law and order, Louisiana Slave Code of 1824, NY Correction Law Sec. 170, penal slavery, peonage, private prisons, race card, Reconstruction, Slave Codes, South Carolina Slave Code of 1740, Two Nations: Black and Shite Separate Hostile Unequal
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Dear Daddy: A Love Letter to Your Beloved South
July 15, 2020 Dear Daddy, Last night I dreamt of you for the first time since your death. I woke up with tears in my eyes. Although you have been dead for a little more than 38 years, in the … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, Education, Family, Fatherhood, Fathers, Growing Up, Lest We Forget
Tagged Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Civil War, Confederate memorials, Confederate monumnets, Confederate statues, Congo, discrimination, Ellis Island, Emmett Till, Four White Men Kidnap and Rape Black Girl in Tylertown MS, Ghana, NC, Nigeria, racial reckoning, Segregation, slave ships, Southern Bantu peoples, the South, Township of Bath, Virginia, white supremacy, WW I, WW II, Yeatesville
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On this day in American History – July 5, 1852 — Frederick Douglass gives his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
One hundred and sixty-eight years ago today Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, the product of a white male raping a Black woman. White … Continue reading
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Tagged "paradox of the positive", #FrederickDouglassLifeMatters, BlackLivesMatter, Christiaen van Couwenberg, D. Waymer, Frederick Douglass, R.L. Heath, Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, The Rape of a Negro Girl, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
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