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slavery by another name

 
birdseye 2021-07-31 22:51:03 

Based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book,

Worth a look

 
Brerzerk 2021-07-31 23:41:35 

In reply to birdseye
my former mechanic's dad is in his 70's grew up in Tennessee. Said he had to pick 100lbs of COTTON/DAY before or after school. His parents were so desperate to keep them on the sharecropping land that he'd be spanked if he failed to pick 100lbs. Watch the docu on Peacock about John Carlos and Tommie Smith's black power salute at '68 olympics and you'll hear that one of them as a kid used to pick cotton right in Lemore Ca.

 
birdseye 2021-08-01 18:32:31 

In reply to BrerzerkI remember the gloved fist in the air on the medal podium in Mexico that created quite a stir. Will take a look at the peacock doc. --- the voting laws that are being cooked-up is just a modern day version of Jim Crow laws…. These are not just whimsical fascinations – well financed right-wing think-tanks spend years and hundreds of millions of dollars to come up with these ideas to maintain white power. Fasci

 
Chrissy 2021-08-01 18:49:30 

In reply to birdseye

Great book