“It was like people who like to go out and shoot lions in Africa. It was the same thrill,
This reminds me of the African proverb that talks about the lion and the hunter and the voices of the two vastly different perspectives.
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- Jul 2023
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culled from the Nuremberg laws
Global Connection: The Nuremberg Laws once used to discriminate and persecute Jewish people served as a framework to do the same to Black Americans.
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precipitous
Precipitous - very steep fall. The word choice goes to show the negative outcome for black families who may not have a safety net to hold on to which for many is non-existent.
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The Pew Research Center estimates that white households are worth roughly 20 times as much as black households, and that whereas only 15 percent of whites have zero or negative wealth, more than a third of blacks do.
This is something that even today can be seen by Black families who own homes. It is constantly reported on the news where Black families who are selling their homes see a lesser value for their property by appraisers than their White counterparts.
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And whereas whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhoods, blacks tended to fall out of them.
This is not a coincidence, it is by design. Our systems and institutions not so long ago implemented various forms of segregation with the aim of keeping White people in this country on a certain level than Black people. One can look at the issue and see that although certain policies and practices are no longer the engrained mission is still there and is still impacting millions of people in particular Black people.
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The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970.
There is really no change. Black Americans are stagnant in terms of the income that they make. The issue in terms of income just goes to show the degree of difficulty that Black families have in order to make it out of struggle and poverty but to live a better life just as their White counterparts.
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There was very little support for educating black people in Mississippi.
The lack of educating Black Americans helped further to oppress Black Americans. Without an education the majority in society would then and have put sort of guardrails in place to limit minority participation in society other than domestic work and hard labor, a primary example of this is being able to read to recite something in order to vote.
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The elder Ross could not read. He did not have a lawyer. He did not know anyone at the local courthouse. He could not expect the police to be impartial. Effectively, the Ross family had no way to contest the claim and no protection under the law. The authorities seized the land. They seized the buggy. They took the cows, hogs, and mules. And so for the upkeep of separate but equal, the entire Ross family was reduced to sharecropping.
This quote speaks to the lived reality of Black Americans during this time period. It shows the low expectations or quite frankly just having no expectations of justice. The laws were not enforced to protected Black Americans it was just simply not used for their benefit. Interestingly enough the law was used to oppress and really dehumanized a group of individuals in society.
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