Follow FREDERICK DOUGLASS??
Long lines queue in Washington, D.C. to see the hand-written original document of the Emancipation Proclamation. Today is its 150th Anniversary. My Second Edition. Ten Thousand. copy of The Tragedy of the Negro In America, published in Boston in 1897, has a signed copy of the Proclamation. There is a copy of a letter from Frederick Douglass addressed to the author, Rev. P. Thomas Stanford, A.M., M.D., D.D., LL.D.
No rational mind, or moral mind, for that matter, can justify our present-day Slavery System, a.k.a. the Prison/Industrial Complex, running full bore at the pleasure and for the profit of Wall Street investors. Young males of color, born into this country and economy, are "tracked" into this 21st Century version of slavery. Only the luckiest of ovarian lottery conditions can save black and brown male children from this fate. Social pressures in language, music, dress, and other media, drive even "privileged"young non-white males to exhibit behaviors that make them candidates for this new "trade". It is long past time for a movement to ABOLISH this trade system and free the talent that is stunted and/or destroyed. The life chances for these individuals, as well as the economic benefits for mankind are being destroyed also. Only public outrage and steps taken against the profiteers of this trade will abolish it!
Our "Justice System" enshrines and supports this trade. Our Churches and Religions ignore, or make peace with it. The system's "overseers" are drawn from the groups who provide the young candidates for the the trade. This new trade has surfaced in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. That Movement appears to ignore the trade also. Could this be proof that the Movement has been thoroughly corrupted, and like the Chattel Slavery System, the new penal Slave Trade is purely economic; not moral in any way? The Environmental Movement consumes a lot of energy and money from our wealthy white citizens; but this new slave system doesn't! Why?
Why are our black and brown parents and their fellow citizens silent? A careful reading of W.E.B. Dubois' Souls of Black Folk, http://www.bartleby.com/114/ and E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Black_Upper_Class might go a long way to explain how these evil practices survive across generations and corrupt the 21st Century for all of us.
We've all witnessed during 2012 open exhibition of these evil forces in our Presidential Election. We learned that 47% of our voting population are candidates for "anti-abolitionist" sentiment. Is it time that we must "free ourselves" .. at last?? Welcome to 2013!
Stay Vigilant!
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