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Tag Archives: Confederacy
Daddy Dearest
My father, a Native Southern Son, was born in the same month and year Negro History Week was established. Then, we were Negroes. Thirty-four years later, when I was born, we were still Negroes. When my father died at the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Memory & Personal Essays, raising black boys
Tagged 1960s, Black Arts Era, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Civil War, Confederacy, Decisive Decade, Emmett Till, Family, fathers, Fourth of July, history, Jim Crow, Michael Easley, politics, raising black boys, Relationships, Richard Wright, Segregated South, Slavery, Southland, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch, Virginia, War of Northern Aggression, World War II
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Rereading Richard Wright’s Black Boy
When I first read Richard Wrightβs Black Boy more than 40 years ago when I was a teenager, little that I knew about literature, I thought the writing was superb. I was doing a little writing then and thought Wright … Continue reading
Posted in Literature & Cultural Criticism
Tagged being a teenager, Black Boy, Black Patriotism, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Family, fathers, Growing Up, Nashville TN, New South, North Carolina, raising black boys, Relationships, Richard Wright, Segregation, Slavery, Strange Fruit, Virginia, World War II
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Daddy Dearest
My father, a Native Southern Son, was born in the same month and year Negro History Week was established. Then, we were Negroes. Thirty-four years later, when I was born, we were still Negroes. When my father died at the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Memory & Personal Essays
Tagged 1960s, Black Arts Era, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Civil War, Confederacy, Decisive Decade, Emmett Till, Family, fathers, Fourth of July, Jim Crow, Michael Easley, raising black boys, Relationships, Richard Wright, Segregated South, Slavery, Southland, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch, Virginia, War of Northern Aggression, World War II
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The Three Pillars of American Society: Slavery, Segregation, and Hyperincarceration
America stands on three pillars: slavery, segregation, and hyperincarceration (incorrectly referred to as βmass incarcerationβ). These βpillarsβ 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 Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society, Streets of Rage
Tagged Angela Davis, Are prisons obsolete?, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, 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, life sentences, Loic Wacquant, Mario Cuomo, Plessy v. Ferguson, Segregation, Slavery, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, 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
Old Confederate Soldiers Never Die
Old Confederate soldiers never die,Never die, never die,Old Confederate soldiers never die,They simply become memorialized.
The βCancel-cultureβ Conundrum
If I hear one more white person say βCancel-cultureβ¦β βCancel-cultureβ 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, itβs a false … Continue reading
Talladega Knights: The Ballad of Bubba Wallace, βSweet Home Alabama,β and the Day of the Noose
Headline: Bubba Wallace, NASCARβs only Black driver who races full-time in NASCARβs top three series β a noose was found in his garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway, βthe biggest and baddest track.β NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from its … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society
Tagged "Sweet Home Alabama", Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Bubba Wallace, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Lynyrd Skynyrd, NASCAR, Noose, Nooses, Slavery, 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 Lincolnβs 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 Race, History & American Society
Tagged 13th Amendment, Black Patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, 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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William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 