Zone1 Video: Slavery By Another Name

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I am watching this now and feel that this will turn out to be a very informative documentary:

[after the abolishment of slavery] ...about a 1/3 of whites at this time were illiterate. Those individuals see Blacks moving around, trying to get land, trying to improve themselves, as competitors, they see a zero sum game in which they are going to lose, the more that Blacks gain ...​

Slavery by Another Name | Episode 1 | PBS

 

[IM2]

I am watching this now and feel that this will turn out to be a very informative documentary:

[after the abolishment of slavery] ...about a 1/3 of whites at this time were illiterate. Those individuals see Blacks moving around, trying to get land, trying to improve themselves, as competitors, they see a zero sum game in which they are going to lose, the more that Blacks gain ...​

Slavery by Another Name | Episode 1 | PBS

And you see the same attitude by whites here. Specifically right wing whites

 

[Hossfly]

And you see the same attitude by whites here. Specifically right wing whites

Not me! I give all my slaves a tablespoon of 'lasses on they grits every morning!

 

[AMart]

Considering 700,000 whites died In the non civil war I might have been a little concerned also.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

"With the end of reconstruction, the nature of both crime and punishment in the south changed dramatically. In state after state and country after country, new laws targeted African Americans and effectively criminalized Black life. lt was a crime in the South for a farm worker to walk beside the railroad, it was a crime in the South to speak loudly in the company of white women, it was a crime in the South to sell the products of your farm after dark..."

".... but the most powerful, the most damaging of all of these laws were the vagrancy laws statutes. In every Southern state you became a criminal if you could not prove at any given moment that you were employed..."

 

[IM2]

"With the end of reconstruction, the nature of both crime and punishment in the south changed dramatically. In state after state and country after country, new laws targeted African Americans and effectively criminalized Black life. lt was a crime in the South for a farm worker to walk beside the railroad, it was a crime in the South to speak loudly in the company of white women, it was a crime in the South to sell the products of your farm after dark..."

".... but the most powerful, the most damaging of all of these laws were the vagrancy laws statutes. In every Southern state you became a criminal if you could not prove at any given moment that you were employed..."

They even made it illegal for blacks to go north to find better paying jobs.

 

[IM2]

Considering 700,000 whites died In the non civil war I might have been a little concerned also.

Whites died then started Jim Crow. So just stop lying to yourself.

 

[IM2]

Not me! I give all my slaves a tablespoon of 'lasses on they grits every morning!

And here is another example of that attitude.

 

[White 6]

They even made it illegal for blacks to go north to find better paying jobs.

I never heard that one. What state(s)? Got a reference?

 

[BackAgain]

Stop thinking. I was born in America. That means I have the first amendment right to air my grievances.

If you knew anything at all, which you don’t, you’d understand that if you weren’t born here, you’d still have the First Amendment protection to air your alleged grievances.

So if your white tuccus don't like it, you move. I'd be quite fine anywhere in Africa. You can't even make it here without the government.

LOL.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

[due to the implementation of the convict leasing system]

".... The South's prison population continued to grow, reaching 19,000 people by 1890. Nearly 90% of those held were African American. When folded into national statistics, the concentration of Black prisoners seemed to reflect an alarming rise in Black crime. So as early as 1890 African Americans are almost 3 times overrepresented in the prison system. The nation's population is 12%, the nation's prison populations of Blacks is 30%..."

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Considering 700,000 whites died In the non civil war I might have been a little concerned also.

Off topic

 

[fncceo]

 

[BackAgain]

Off topic

What? People of color (in this case white) and civil war and slavery references seem to be very topical.

 

[Concerned American]

The nation's population is 12%, the nation's prison populations of Blacks is 30%..."

Do you have any evidence that exonerates this 30%? If not, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

 

[22lcidw]

And you see the same attitude by whites here. Specifically right wing whites

The United States is now a Socialist Progressive nation. Trillions of dollars spent on the wrongs of the past. Even if there are areas not of your acceptance there are areas of massive square miles that are. Persecuting others for African American personal failures is old after 60 years of intense promoting of affirmative action, diversity and quotas. White poverty has increased in a huge way. and white males are not on the top of the list getting the free stuff. This is not about right-wing whites. It is about total domination.

 

[Lisa558]

Whites died then started Jim Crow. So just stop lying to yourself.

So the whites who died started Jim Crow?

Hundreds of thousands of whites died to free your ancestors. A little recognition of GOOD whites would be in order.

 

[nawpar]

I am watching this now and feel that this will turn out to be a very informative documentary:

[after the abolishment of slavery] ...about a 1/3 of whites at this time were illiterate. Those individuals see Blacks moving around, trying to get land, trying to improve themselves, as competitors, they see a zero sum game in which they are going to lose, the more that Blacks gain ...​

Slavery by Another Name | Episode 1 | PBS

So what? Why do people keep bringing it up?

 

[Lisa558]

So what? Why do people keep bringing it up?

To promote resentment by blacks, who if under 60 have actually enjoyed favoritism over whites, for what happened generations ago to people they never knew, and thus drive division in an attempt to weaken America.

 

[LibertyKid]

And we are surprised that racism didn't end with the Emancipation Proclamation (EP)? Well, no shit! You can't end a 100 years of slavery and pretend that some signed document automagically removes deep seeded beliefs and feelings like a light switch. It's obvious that the EP, as well intended as it was, was not enough and didn't reach far enough into our nation to set the right path forward for Blacks in America.

On the other hand, to continue to point towards history, as the current narrative does, does not promote a path forward