we must learn from #history. we won’t even admit to the #systemicraciam we benefit from, y

we must learn from #history. we won’t even admit to the #systemicraciam we benefit from, yet find the creativity to suppress votes & maintain a violent racist history is unacceptable. we need to recognize it & ACT w/ the intent to BE #antracist. that doesn’t mean “but I HAVE black FRIENDS!!”, it means calling it out when u see it & INTENTIONALLY not participating in systemic racism. as a person w/ a disabling condition, I have many friends, but make no mistake, not all my friends understand crap like #drivingwhiledisabled or rarely meeting a stranger’s gaze b/c it’s so easy just ignore a person with a #disability instead of acknowledging them. @workingclasshistory ・・・ On this day, 25 November 1865, the US state of Mississippi instituted its Black Code in a bid to reintroduce slavery by another name in the wake of the defeat of the South in the civil war. After slavery was abolished, racist whites in the South began murdering newly-freed African-Americans, who began to flee en masse to cities like New Orleans and Memphis. This threatened the profits of former enslavers, who still needed Black workers to labour on their land. So many states implemented Black Codes to prevent them from leaving, and ensure they remained as an easily-exploitable section of the working class. In Mississippi, the code only allowed Black people to rent land within cities, meaning that they could not farm and be self-sufficient. They were also required to be employed by white people, and present proof of employment by a white person each year, and were forbidden from changing jobs. Violation of the law meant being dubbed a “vagrant” and being arrested, fined and jailed. Once imprisoned, Black people could be enslaved once more, legally. Anyone caught trying to help bonded labourers escape, including sympathetic whites, were also punished. The codes were eventually voided by Congressional Reconstruction, and eventually sharecropping would come to be the predominant model of agricultural labour in the post-war South. Although disproportionate imprisonment and subsequent enslavement of Black people across the US continues to this day. Pictured: forced prison labourers, 1903 https://www.instagram.com/p/CICGqEXBi86/?igshid=8ihfi5n8wj8j -- source link

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