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Day 3: 

Sharing from the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, If I was White by Vernon Ah Kee. 

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Life in America

“In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes. Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor.It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system. Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940.This is how it happened.The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865)Did you catch that? It says, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude could occur except as a punishment for a crime". Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes. Here are some examples of Black Codes:   In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering.This next Black Code will make you cringe.      In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer". Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away.This (peonage) is an example of systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems. Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived.This is the part of Black History that most of us were never told about.”

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The Caged Bird Sings

When I was a young boy, between the ages of 6 and 7 years old, I can remember an older relative that was like a grandmother, reciting a poem about a bird in a cage. When I returned home from staying with relatives in New Orleans during the school summer break, I would question my mother daily with the same question. I would say, "Mama, why is there a bird in a cage that won't stop singing?" I would continue with the interrogation by probing, "Why does Aunt Teadot always recite it to us kids when

The Cage Bird Sings

This week's blog is called The Caged Bird Sings. It's based on the poem that was written in 1899 by Paul Laurence Dunbar about the treatment of Black slaves in America. Reading the fabulous book by Isabel Wilkerson called Caste, also encouraged me to share parts of history of how Black slaves were abused in America and how Jew were treated in the same inhumane fashion in German Nazi concentration camps. Both countries supported the cruel treatment and murders of many people.

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Between the World and Me

This is a great film that I watched tonight. It’s on HBO and is amazing work by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Not much has changed from the 1960s to 2020

Same old bullshit and racism.

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Barbie and Nikki Speak Out about Racism