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[impermanent-art]

‘The More Things Change…’

Work by Joe Iurato at the Bushwick Collective, on a gate he’s been painting annually for the last nine years.

[falsehoodwinked]

hey so i need to recover from after shocks  by the lovely writers @themorethingschange. it was amazing, as always, and the scene with the boys doing art therapy is the only thing holding me together.

“...It's not gray,” Remus mumbled into his smock once he had calmed somewhat. “I’m not sure what I'm feeling right now, but...it's not gray.”

- The More Things Change, Act 2, Aftershocks Chapter 2 by  Frejennix and Lalijinx

[enbylogan]

mirrorverse update prayer circle

[dscola]

Paddyrollers began in 1704 in South Carolina. The Paddyrollers job was to ride around slave plantations stopping all slaves they encountered and making them prove that they were engaged in lawful activities. Paddyrollers required Blacks to produce a pass, which stated their owner's name as well as where and when they were allowed to be away from the plantation and for how long…SOUND FAMILIAR. Paddyrollers would break up large gatherings and assemblies of Blacks, enter without warrant the plantation grounds to search the slave quarters and inspect slave homes… DAMN THIS SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR… looking for stolen goods, missing slaves who had turned runaway and weapons that could be used in an revolt. They also looked for evidence of books, papers, and pens because remember learning to read and write was forbidden for Black folks on the plantation. I WASN’T BORN A SLAVE BUT I’VE BEEN FORCED TO PRODUCE MY PASS…I MEAN ID AND ASKED WHERE I’M GOING, SEARCHED FOR WEAPONS AND TOLD WE HAVE TO MOVE OFF THE BLOCK SEVERAL TIMES. DAMN FUNNY HOW TIMES NEVER CHANGE. #paddyrollers #slavecatchers #overseer #officer #moderndayslavepatrol #thingstheydontteachyou #blackhidstory #themorethingschange #throwawaythewholesystem #makebeingblackinamericalegal https://www.instagram.com/p/BcffBtYgomy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n6efia7rxvi0

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James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) pictured in Durham, North Carolina. Baldwin, known for his style even then, is wearing an opulent shearling coat, capable of resisting the worse of New York winters, a dark suit, a white shirt with slim tie, and a pair of unbuckle monk strap winter boots.

I love that he is standing in front of a restaurant with a sign that reads, Colored Entrance Only with a white staff person standing at the window probably making sure he won’t enter through in other door or it will be a reason to kill him, much like many racists still believe today.

[tubbsmccracken]

White Mob in Georgia Lynches Two Black Men After Judge Refuses to Protect Them

On June 27, 1911, a Walton County mob of several hundred unmasked white men lynched two Black men named Tom Allen and Joe Watts after a local white judge—Charles H. Brand—refused to allow state guardsmen to be present to prevent mob action. Judge Brand had been aware of the threat of mob violence for weeks. Mr. Allen, who had been accused of assaulting a white woman, had been held in Atlanta for safekeeping because of the threat. In early June, Mr. Allen was brought to Monroe for trial with the protection of state troops from the Governor, but Judge Brand “resented” the presence of troops, postponed the trial because of the protection being offered, and sent Mr. Allen back to Atlanta. When Mr. Allen was ordered back to Monroe for trial on June 27, Judge Brand refused an offer of protection from the state troops. Consequently, Mr. Allen was protected only by two officers on the train. Aware that Mr. Allen no longer had the protection of state troops, the white mob intercepted the train bound for Monroe and seized Mr. Allen from the two officers charged with protecting him. The mob tied Mr. Allen to a telegraph pole and shot him while the passengers of the train and hundreds in the mob looked on. The mob then proceeded to march six miles to the town jail where another Black man named Joe Watts was being held. Some newspapers reported that Mr. Watts was an alleged accomplice of Mr. Allen, while others noted Mr. Watts had been arrested for having “acted suspiciously” outside of a white man’s home, but had not been charged with a crime. The white mob stormed the jail without resistance from the jailers, removed Mr. Watts, and lynched him as well, hanging him from a tree and shooting him repeatedly. Both men had maintained that they were innocent, and contemporary newspapers reported that there was no evidence against them. In most cases of racial terror lynching throughout this era, the criminal legal system failed to intervene or use force to repel lynch mobs, even when the threat of lynching was evident and underway. Despite their legal responsibility to equally protect anyone in their custody, law enforcement and judicial officials were often found to be complicit in the seizure or lynchings of Black men, women, and children by abdicating their responsibility to prevent mob abductions. In this case, Judge Brand refused to allow for the protection of the state troops that had successfully transported and protected Mr. Allen from being lynched just three weeks before, making it easier for the white mob to lynch these men. Three months earlier, in Judge Brand’s hometown of Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County, he had also refused the assistance of state troops to protect a Black man named Charles Hale, who, left without the protection of those troops, was taken by a white mob and lynched. Despite his failure to protect these men, he continued to serve as a judge until 1917. In 1917, Judge Brand was elected to Congress to represent Georgia's 8th Congressional District, where he served seven consecutive terms. Mr. Allen and Mr. Watts were two of at least nine documented victims of racial terror lynchings in Walton County, Georgia, between 1865 and 1950. EJI has documented over 6,500 racial terror lynchings that occurred between 1865 and 1950. To learn more, read EJI’s reports, Lynching in America and Reconstruction in America.

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