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Category Archives: Slavery
The “new” Jim Crow is as old as the Union
Ever have a “Eureka!” moment? During my legal research in the early 1980’s, I came across something that, beyond a reasonable doubt, confirmed what people had been talking about without much evidence, beyond the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, Politics, Slavery
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Brown v Board of Education, Democracy in America, Emancipation Proclamation, Gustave De Beaumont, hyperincarceration, Mass Incarceration, Michelle Alexander, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application in France, Slave Codes, The New Jim Crow, Thirteenth Amendment
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A Statue for the Unknown Slave Woman?
Today, in honor of Women’s History Month, I’m going to do something slightly different: honor an unknown woman — in fact, unknown women — by sharing a poem from my third collection of poetry, The Black Feminine Mystique. It is … Continue reading
Posted in ezwwaters, race, Slavery
Tagged Liberty Island, The Black Feminine Mystique, Women's History Month
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Ida B. Wells: The Black Woman Crusader Against White Knights
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery on July 16, 1862. She was “freed” by presidential proclamation and executive order (the Emancipation Proclamation) issued by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the American Civil War. Ida B. Wells … Continue reading
We Be Watchin’ You God!
Their Eyes Were Watching God! That is one of the greatest and most meaningful titles to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. And Zora Neale Hurston was one of the coolest women during that era, holding her own with all … Continue reading
“My Lord, What a Morning”
On the penultimate day of Black History Month, I participated in a Black History Month Celebration at my church, St. Michael-St. Malachy. I was asked to recite a poem. A number of youth were present at the celebration, and even … Continue reading
The Three Pillars of American Society: Slavery, Segregation, and Hyperincarceration
America stands on three pillars: slavery, segregation, and hyperincarceration (incorrectly referred to as “mass incarceration”). These “pillars” implicate and impact mostly Black people, but also all people living in America or dreaming about coming to America. In fact, the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, ezwwaters, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Life Sentences, Politics, race, Slavery, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Streets of Rage
Tagged Angela Davis, Are prisons obsolete?, Brown v. Board of Education, Charles E. Silberman, Confederacy, Criminal Violence Criminal Justice, Declaration of Independence, George Jackson, George Wallace, hyperincarceration, Jessica Mitford, Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, Loic Waquant, Mario Cuomo, Plessy v. Ferguson, Segregation, Slavery, Southland
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A Brief History of How “Black History” is Seen
What is called “Black History” in the United States of America is American history. In categorizing and cataloging “Black History” as such, and relegating it not only to one month of the year, February, but also the shortest month of … Continue reading
Posted in Black patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Education, Lest We Forget, Patriotism, race, Revolution, Slavery
Tagged American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, Black history, Confederacy, Confederate icnoography, hyperincarceration, immigration, racial reckoning, Segregation, Slavery, treason, W.E.B.DuBois
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A Brief History of the Hayes-Tilden Compromise
In order to understand the pathology of memorializing treasonous Confederates, look to the Hayes-Tilden Compromise (1876-77), which in effect ended the Reconstruction years (1865-1877), when Black people made tremendous strides, politically, economically, and socially, a mere 12 years after 246 … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Lest We Forget, Malcolm X, Patriotism, race, Slavery
Tagged 1619, American Civil War, Confederade memorials, Confederate Monuments, Confederate States of America, Confederate statues, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Hayes-Tilden Compromise, Jamestown, Malcolm X, Plymouth Rock, Reconstruction, Slavery
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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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