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Tag Archives: Confederacy
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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Black Lives Have Always Mattered
More than 20 years ago, long before #BlackLivesMatter, I noticed a disturbing trend: almost everyday in the news there was a case of police brutality, mostly against Black people, with a few white people sprinkled in because, even though this … Continue reading
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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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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Talladega Knights: The Ballad of Bubba Wallace, “Sweet Home Alabama,” and the Day of the Noose
Headline: Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black driver who races full-time in NASCAR’s top three series – a noose was found in his garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway, “the biggest and baddest track.” NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from its … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Politics, race, Revolution, Slavery
Tagged "Sweet Home Alabama", Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Bubba Wallace, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Lynyard Skynyrd, NASCAR, Noose, Nooses, Talladega Alabama, Talladega Superspeedway, white supremacy
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On this Day in American history – June 19, 1865 — Juneteenth (From the Equal Justice Initiative)
Although President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved Black people in Confederate territories free, these locations were under Confederate control, which rejected the freedom of enslaved people on plantations throughout the South. The Proclamation did little to emancipate enslaved … Continue reading
Posted in Black patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Lest We Forget, race, Revolution, Slavery
Tagged 13th Amendment, American Civil War, Confederacy, Emancipation Proclamation, Equal Justice Initiative, Juneteenth, Mass Incarceration, racial hierarchy, racial injustice, racial terror, racial terror lynchings, Reconstruction, Segregation, Slavery, white supremacy
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The South Won the War of Northern Aggression?
Imagine a visitor from another planet, say Mars, is touring the Southern states and is in modern day Virginia. The Martian makes its way to Jamestown, which he finds both interesting, and puzzling. It has familiarized itself with 200 years … Continue reading
On this day in American history, August 20, 1619 — First Enslaved Africans Land in Jamestown, Virginia
The stage was set for slavery in the United States as early as the 14th century, when Spain and Portugal began to capture Africans for enslavement in Europe. Slavery eventually expanded to colonial America, where the first enslaved Africans arrived … Continue reading
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Tagged Angola, Confederacy, Equal Justice Initiative, indentured servants, Jamestown, Sao Joao Bautista, Slavery, Treasurer, White Lion
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Timeless Enemies, Timeless “little” White Lies
In my penultimate blog, I wrote about the TV series, “Timeless.” At the end, I mentioned Puerto Rican nationalist-revolutionary Oscar Lopez Rivera, and how the opposition to honoring him in the 2017 Puerto Rican Day Parade is connected to “Timeless,” … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2017 Puerto Rican Day Parade, America's Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate flag, David Ben Gurion, Deir Yassin Massacre, FALN, Founding Fathers, freedom fighters, Haganah, Irgun, Jerusalem, King David Hotel, Ku Klux Klan, Lehi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Lopez Rivera, terrorist groups, terrorists, Timeless, Yizhak Shamir
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