#jimcrow

[azspot]

[ptseti]

Imagine playing Monopoly for 400 rounds — except you're not allowed to touch a dollar.

Every dime you earn goes to your opponent. You build their wealth. You grow their empire. You get nothing.

Then for 50 years, they finally let you play.

But every time you start winning… every time you build something real… they flip the board.

Burn your cards. Torch your property.

Tulsa. Rosewood. Places where we built banks. Hotels. Businesses. Gone.

Now they look at you and say "catch up."

The math doesn't work.

The only way to catch up is if they share. But sharing comes with psychological warfare: "equal opportunity hire." "Diversity quota." Language designed to make equity feel like charity.

You can't win a game that was rigged from the first turn.

This isn't history. This is the economy you inherited.

Media: CarJamTV Speaker: @kimberlylatricejones

[whenweallvote]

On this day in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal — as long as they were equal. The ruling affirmed and reinforced “Jim Crow” laws and established the “separate but equal” doctrine that would stand for the next 60 years.

We cannot live up to our greatest ideals without confronting the realities of our past.

[petervintonjr]

Lesson #107

"Good morning, sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!"

In another "why on earth haven't they made a movie out of this person's life yet?" entry, we examine the fascinating tale of Robert Smalls.  Born enslaved on a plantation in 1839 Beaufort, South Carolina, Smalls's childhood was, as one might expect, a never-ending horror show --the region was still grappling with the aftermath of Denmark Vesey's (planned) slave uprising, and local laws had decidedly amped up the oppression and the cruelty.  At the age of 12 Smalls's owner sent him to Charleston to work as a ship-rigger and sailor.  At the time all earnings went to the owner but Smalls managed to negotiate being able to keep 85% of the earnings by the time he was 18 --his plan ultimately being to buy his wife's and daughter's freedom.  During these years he learned everything there was to learn about seamanship and by the time the Civil War kicked off, Smalls found himself serving as a deckhand about the sidewheel steamer Planter, a supply ship tasked with delivering armaments to various Confederate forts, including the now-infamous Fort Sumter.

On May 13, 1862 at 2:30 a.m., Smalls changed the narrative a little. 

While the Planter was berthed in Charleston and all of her white crew (including its officers) were ashore, Smalls snuck his wife and children aboard her, and, along with twelve other secretly-recruited slaves from the city, commandeered the vessel and sailed her right past 5 other Confederate ships and other heavily-armed shore emplacements and forts --Smalls having mastered the coded whistle signals necessary to bluff his way past.  The Planter then approached the Union blockade and raised the white flag to hail a Union clipper ship, the Onward.  The Planter's entire store of munitions, plans, charts, and codebooks were turned over to U.S. Naval intelligence, and the ship itself became a Union warship.  Smalls quickly gained notoriety in the Union's cause and drew the attention of President Lincoln, which almost certainly influenced his decision to permit Black soldiers to enlist in the Union Army.

There is of course a great deal more to the story --not the least of which includes Smalls's commissioning as an actual U.S. Navy officer and formal instatement as the Planter's actual Captain.  He also piloted the Skipper, the Isaac Smith, and the ironclad Keokuk.  He supported Sherman's March to the Sea and was present for the Union flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter in April 1865.  His postwar story is equally compelling --including his purchase of his former owner's plantation house in Beaufort, and the founding of a school for Black children.  He lent support to the Freedmen's Bureau, started and published a Black-owned newspaper, the Beaufort Southern Standard , and then --perhaps most improbably of all-- in 1874 ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, won, and served in Congress a total of five terms (first in South Carolina's 5th District, then after gerrymandering, the 7th District).  His public role did not end in 1884 --he lived long enough into the twentieth century to witness the rise of Jim Crow and fiercely pushed back against Black disenfranchisement, which was being rewritten back into a great many state constitutions, including South Carolina's.  Smalls died of malaria in 1915, at the age of 75. 

A monument to Smalls at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort includes his 1895 statement to the South Carolina legislature: "My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life."

(Okay, I fibbed a bit in that first paragraph --there IS in fact a Robert Smalls biopic at last greenlit and in development by Amazon Studios.  No casting announcements yet, but it will reportedtly be directed by Malcolm M. Mays.  Keep an eye out.  In the meantime, for further enrichment I would recommend "Moonlight Helmsman" by Richard Maule and "Trouble The Water" by Rebecca Dwight Bruff --while I am not normally a fan of historical fiction, these two books definitely bring the drama and the excitement while still staying true to the actual facts.)

[brandonimhotep]

Cynthia "Cynt" Marshall was the first black cheerleader at the University of #California, Berkeley in the late 1970s. She spent nearly four decades climbing the corporate ladder at AT&T. And today she is the first black, female #CEO in the #NBA, having taken the helm at the #Dallas Mavericks in 2018 But being “first” is nothing new for her. Cynthia’s family left #Birmingham, #Alabama, and traveled to California when she was 3 months old. It was an effort to escape the #JimCrow South, but life in the projects on the West Coast wasn’t easy. “When I was 11, some chaos broke out in our family, and I saw my father actually shoot a man in the head,” said Marshall, who said it was self-defense on her father’s part. While her father survived the incident, Marshal did not forget it. She sought a “way out” by setting her sights on leadership. At her sisters’ graduation, she noticed the only speakers were white boys. “I was in the ninth grade, and I looked at my mom and I said, ‘Can a Black girl be senior class president? Can a #Blackgirl be student body president?’ She said, ‘Of course. You can do whatever you want to do.’ I said, ‘OK I gotta get one of my buddies because when we graduate, we’re going to do that.’ I found out that had never happened before.” Marshall became the first African American president at her school. “It was historic and the faculty was more emotional than I was. We’ve been blazing trails ever since then,” Marshall said. Marshall later became the first #AfricanAmerican cheerleader at #Berkley and the first Black woman in #DeltaGamma at the school. Yet, even at almost 40 years old, she found herself not being accepted for who she was. “When you fundamentally try to change who I am, when you tell me I can’t say blessed, when you tell me I’m too loud, you’re actually telling me you don’t want me to be a #Blackwoman,” she said. Now, as CEO of the #Mavericks, tasked with transforming the culture, she’s making sure nobody else experiences that. “If nothing else, I am proud of the speak-up culture we have. Our people have a voice,” she added. Sources: MAVS, CNBC, #CynthiaMarshall Kindly FOLLOW @wonderwombman @wonderwombman2 #wonderwombman https://www.instagram.com/p/CYswLxzA_Ny/?utm_medium=tumblr

[marcellouslovelace]

2022 They Fear The Black Man Part 2 art by Marcellous Lovelace = As long as you see yourself from an oppressors point of view, operating with the same electrical wiring as an oppressor you will never be whole only a part of your own reality. Nothing about accepting the onslaught of your own demise you are only seeking the organizing of nothing. Think freedom with organized behavior confusion ... Departure abandoned boycott neglected deleted Imperialism. #congo #songhai #marcellouslovelace #fight #blackart #seperation #jimcrow #gold #eugenics #populationcontrol #art #rbg #polltax #75dab #biko70 #painting #see #nocolonialdreams #drawings #design #raygun81 #blacklabor #memorialday https://www.instagram.com/p/Cda4IQzrPc7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[darealprisonart]

The 9 Livez of the Black Pantherz In "The Nine Lives of the Black Pantherz," Revolutionary prison artist Joedee tells us in his work: A Black Pantherz Sprite Neva Diez ...The 9 Livez of the Black Pantherz He goes on and lays out in another piece of written text, "The Assassination of the Black Panther Party," and list the names and year of their assassination, guilty of only standing up to white power and speaking, "I want for Blacks what you want for yourself!" Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter 1969 George Lester Jackson 1971 Jonathan Jackson 1970 "Lil Bobby" Hutton 1968 Huey Newton 1994 Hugo Yogi Pinell 2015 E * Geronimo Ji-Jiga Pratt 2011 Do you want more content like this? Follow us @Neojimcrowart #blackpanthers #blackpantherparty #blackpanther #GeorgeJackson #GeorgeJacksonUniversity #thenewjimcrow #jimcrow #abolition #neojimcrowart #art #prison #prisonart #blackartmatters #BlackLivesMatter #blackart #ados #blackartist #blackamerica #africanamericanart #africanamerican #africanamericanhistory #panafrica #africa #hiphopart #hiphopculture #hiphopblog #hiphopnation (at Campaign to End the New Jim Crow) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdaFr0bsQLp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ignorantsanonymous]

Just a reminder.