As of November 5, 2024, a newly elected president has been given power and usurped power that is not rightfully his. That president has amassed a swarm of "little ones" who will do his bidding at all costs because they either love him or fear him or admire him or want to be him. He is a powerful Cult leader. What he is to Black people is an enemy. There has come an enemy of Black History Month, Black People's holidays, Black people's books, Black people's music, Black people's education, Black families, Black religion, and Black people's culture overall.
Black people were among those who built this country; Black slaves built the White House, and Black slaves then slaved inside the White House as servants of all kinds. Today, Black people have no more value in the eyes of white (and non-white) bigots than they had during slavery, except as the value of chattel. You know, horses, cows, chickens, goats, and sheep, for example.
Blacks had value only in terms of money from slave labor. This administration will prove what they deem to be the value of Blacks - the educated, the non-educated, and the in-between alike. Yet most Blacks know there are symbols right now of white bigots' valuation of Black skin: the most atrocious one is mass incarceration in for-profit prisons. These are private tools for keeping Black families divided, Black children are always vulnerable to losing a father or a mother to the local, state, and federal prison system or collectively, the Criminal Justice System.
This tool of oppression was instituted after the Civil War to continue keeping Blacks in bondage. Following the Civil War, "mass incarceration" primarily refers to the disproportionate imprisonment of African Americans in the South, largely due to the loophole in the 13th Amendment which allowed for "punishment for a crime" as an exception to slavery, leading to the creation of "Black Codes" and a system of convict leasing that effectively re-enslaved freed Black people through criminalization and forced labor; this practice is considered a significant root cause of modern mass incarceration in the United States today.
Mass incarceration is still possibly the main method of destroying Black communities and Black families and creating most single-mother households. On the other hand, Black women are overrepresented in the US prison system, with a higher incarceration rate than white women. This disparity is rooted in systemic racism and structural inequalities. For-profit prisons are continually being built. The enemy is, in addition, working on the evil idea of sending American citizens to foreign lands to be housed in those for-profit prisons. We should be aware of that. We should be the first to stand against it before the enemy of all that is good and right makes it known that it is a done deal.
https://bit.ly/3EQk0SH Black male incarceration vs. white male incarceration
https://bit.ly/3CTgLJS Black incarcerated women versus white incarcerated women
https://bit.ly/4i1hhnJ Extreme sentences harm Black women
https://bit.ly/42R11BE Incarcerated women and girls
“Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon (the author follows the lives of ex-slaves as far as possible, documenting the raw brutality of this type of master-slave relationship)
https://bit.ly/4gYnal3 The US leads the world in the number of prisons; Texas leads the states
https://bit.ly/3X3LEC1 Trump exploring deporting US citizens to El Salvadorian prisons
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