Slavery by Another Name. GREAT INTERVIEW-2/2

Slavery by Another Name: Author Douglas Blackmon on the Re-Enslavement of Black People in America

A new book by award-winning journalist Douglas Blackmon uncovers the forgotten history of neo-slavery imposed on hundreds and thousands of African Americans that continued well after the Civil War and persisted right up to the 1940s. Using extensive archival sources, Blackmon uncovers the shameful system created to re-enslave African Americans. Under new laws, they were intimidated, arrested, charged with exorbitant fines, and then sold as forced laborers to corporations, mines and plantations or compelled into involuntary servitude. [includes rush transcript]

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[wervasdeferens]

I'm black, and most blacks know about their history in America.

However,this same mentality is going on today under the name of the New World Order. The enslavement is colorblind and worldwide. Exact same system,though.

Slavery by another name is still slavery.

Call it manifest destiny,cheap labor, globalization,free trade or whatever you will,but it's still slavery!

[aquerius23]

Right from the first contact in the 1300,s till date, Europeans and European Americans alike have consistently and continuously LEACHED, MURDERED AND DEHUMANIZED the Afrikans in Diaspora. And this EVIL with its appropriate punishment, shall befall the Caucasoids worse than the BUBONIC plague did, reverberating through generations of Caucasoids till AMUN-RA feels appeased. HOTEP!

[hustlaus]

business? The Feds would find him, charge him, jail him, freeze and seize all of his assets. However, the forementioned corporations not only got away free but still exist to this day as some of the most powerful financial entities in the U. S. Ain't that a bitch????

[hustlaus]

level, this shit was allowed to go on. Even the President championed the position of turning a blind eye. I actually saw the program on PBS and there were several Black people how wrote to Roosevelt and asked him to do something. The only thing that made him react was some political bullshit. He didn't want to be embarrassed internationally. He actually pardoned some of the biggest offenders of this conspiracy. What if Freeway Ricky Ross took the money that he made and created a successful

[hustlaus]

People love to talk about the social events that took place around slavery and peonage but I love to talk about the money. Sun Trust, JP Morgan, Wachovia, Coca Cola??? The gensis or galvenization of their businesses was based on illegal slave labor of Blacks and I betcha if you ask the relatives of most of the founders of these corporations, they'll tell you that "Our Family Pulled Ourselves Up By The Bootstraps" bullshit!! Look at how big this conspiracy is. From the Federal, State, & local

[hustlaus]

@wervasdeferens You are looking at it from more of a macro point of view. However, if you customize it to Black people, you'd find peonage, white flight, eminent domain, American domestic terrorist (KKK, Neo-Nazis, etc.), The War on Drugs, The Prison Industrial Complex, The Crack epidemic, Gentrification, etc. These conspiracies, entities, and systems were tailored made to work against Black people. No other race in America suffered their affects like Blacks in America.

[hustlaus]

@tranmere789 However, you got to realize that American slavery and African slavery or two totally different things. African slavery is basically indentured servitude. Whereas American slavery deals with the the complete destruction of a person's culture, racism, and the entire reprogramming of a person for him a generations to follow to serve his master.

[hustlaus]

@tranmere789 I don't think that was the case. I think the Soviets could have easily said that you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of them embarking imperialism or colonialism on people of color in the world. That's why America was so upset with Paul Robeson. He basically articulated that fact and he was totally erased out of American History for it.

[tranmere789]

There are some misleadings. The lynching era actually ended (in large scale) by mid 1920's. Then there's a question about lack of labour soon after Pearl Harbour. Another thing is mechanizing acriculture during 1940's.

However Blackmon has done a good job. I just wonder what part of Cold War and communist propaganda play in for making live little bit better for american black people. Was Washington afraid of communists trying to make propaganda about bad treatment of black people in USA?

[tranmere789]

@aquerius23

You forget one thing: europeans enslaved also other europeans. And africans have - of course - enslaved other africans too.

[BrothaMuStafa]

Slavery by another name is being called an African American,

[wisedomee]

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