Showing posts with label give us free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label give us free. Show all posts
who sat in Rosa's seat after she was removed?
who made the 1st nigger noose?
what mind constructed?
who sat in Rosa's seat after she was removed?
Michelle On Risk of U.S.
In Obama's 2nd Trayvon speech, and remember it did take TWO, he echoed Michelle's line of thought: 'hey...it could have been me'. Isn't this defeatist. The Same thing in his Henry Louis Gates speech, (before he bumped his head and called a white cop 'stupid'), he first said 'you know, that could have been me in my house'.
So they mean: 'We run the risk of being niggerized by being here in the US (i.e. where racism-yt supremacy-in it's most lethal form 'lives'). We were not raised to let the fear of that paralyze us.'
How much further though is it to move from not being afraid of it, to actually moving to stop racism-yt supremacy Directly?
It is a long long way.
Illinois woman killed same day sister sat behind Obama
An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push for gun control legislation.
Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago, said Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd. Mcfarlane, a mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting friends and family.
North Chicago police said two people are being questioned in connection with Mcfarlane's death, but no charges have been filed.
"I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out," Angela Blakely, Mcfarlane's mother, said.
Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.
Hours earlier, Mcfarlane's 14-year-old sister was feet from Obama at Hyde Park Career Academy, where he spoke about gun violence and paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a South Side park. Police have said it was a case of mistaken identity, and two people have been charged.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. Pendleton, a drum majorette, had recently performed during Obama's inauguration and the slaying happened about a mile from his Chicago home.
Blakely told the newspaper that Janay Mcfarlane had been affected by Pendleton's death.
"She always said after Hadiya Pendleton got killed, 'Momma that's so sad,'" Blakely said. "She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was always touched by mothers who couldn't be there for their babies because they were gone."
Mcfarlane was supposed to graduate from an alternative school this spring, Blakely said, and wanted to go into the culinary arts.
"I'm just really, truly just trying to process it — knowing that I'm not taking my baby home anymore," Blakely said.
A girl was lynched today.
Thus, so, was africa INDEPENDENCED
"Whites reasoned that even if Africans had once had
entitlement to themselves as free people, such entitlement did not extend to
slaves born and raised in white families-persons never free, raised at the
"expense" of their owners. But
this reasoning implied that emancipating one's slaves conferred freedom upon
them as a gift to which they were at best theoretically but never actually
entitled. And in the view of most
whites, since even the act of being freed represented the exercise of the owner's
power over the slave, an emancipated slave could never become a
"free" person but only a "freed" one- a person acted upon,
not acting."
~Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860, Joanne Pope Melish
Terms & Conditions Apply
“Blacks faced a neo-slave system when the Civil War ended. Cotton still had to be picked, tobacco fields needed to be tended, and menial labor was required for the industries of the New South. It has been documented that share cropping, debt peonage, and convict lease were means used to resubjugate black labor and that the South sought through jim crow, night riders, and lynch law to nullify the civil and political rights guaranteed to blacks under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments. But another tool was also used against blacks: industrial education.”
~Donald Spivey, Schooling for the New Slavery
Decisions - freedom on earth
Neither did a slave named Prince, now owned by Joseph Barnard, accept this sermon. In September he decided that another sort of freedom was far more desirable. He put his fiddle under his arm, made up a bundle of heavy clothes-an old brown coat, "a double-breasted blue coat with a cape," a brown overcoat with cuffs and a cape, a new jacket and new leather breeches, stockings, and pumps-took up a rifle in his other hand, and tiptoed out of town. Barnard immediately advertised in the Boston Weekly Post-Boy and got him back. After that, Prince decided that the enslaved life was no life at all. The last we hear of him, only about a year and a half later, is when Barnard paid 2pounds for Prince's coffin.
~Mr. & Mrs. Prince, G. Holbrook
Bconx: Linkages
"Lingakes between slaves’ behavior during their term of years and a potential speedup of emancipation could be quite explicit: Edward Griffith [ca. 1808] promised Jack and seven other adolescent slaves freedom at the age of thirty but allowed in the manumission deed that, “provided that the said negroes shall serve faithful and . . . remain . . . obedient servants until they come of age of 25 years I do hereby agree and determine that they shall be free at the age of 25 years.” Griffith’s straightforward language vividly illustrates what many more circumspect manumission deeds no doubt concealed. As master, he “determined” when Jack and the others would become free...."
~The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
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