Sorry Folks: It's Just not the Same

Jan 20, 2009 "Reflecting Pool Freezes Over"

After some "forced fed" research last week, it has become evident that "equating the move of 16th century slave-chattel to 19th century 'emancipation' to 20th century negro 'freedom' marches and the subsequent advances; with current marriage activism as the same or similar; is not consistent with the facts of the 'then' and the 'now'.

"Now" with a downplayed event to occur in Jackson, Ms., & Lambert, Ms., spearheaded by Antoinette Harrell & 20th Century Slavery, as a fact is brought to bare in Harrell's Poverty Tour.

Her "movement" is long overdue. However, on one specific episode, what was seen in "the evolution of Dr. King's 'Poor People's Campaign' is juxtaposed" against current conditions.

The idea of 20th Century Slavery is appalling. But, the fear placed on individuals cannot be equated with the "voluntary acceptance of a lifestyle" which devolves to "teen & adolescent" bondage.

"Many of the countless missing boys & girls are in bondage in America in 2009, by the purveyors of images of youth in explicit depictions of bondage."

It should be noted, we are in the 21st Century! "Some years ago, at one of her many speaking engagements on the importance of tracking family history (even the painful parts), Antoinette Harrell was approached by Mae Louise Wall Miller, who told her that she was raised in what amounted to slavery and only escaped in 1963. That's right. Not 1863, but 1963.
Miller's family lived in a remote setting in Mississippi, far from cities or even roads, not being able to read or write and completely cut off from outsiders. The story Miller tells is harrowing and, as she told it at the premiere, you could have heard a pin drop in the auditorium.
Miller talked about how they were treated worse than dogs. How they all spent their every waking moment "picking cotton, pulling corn, picking peas, picking butter beans, picking string beans, digging potatoes; whatever it was, that's what you did for no money at all." How the "Boss's" table scraps were tossed into a tub for days and then set out under a tree for them to eat out of like hogs." It is evident a great amount of effort was employed to subject folks in that time, "then".

But right at this prevalent time, this enigma approaches us from the woodworks of yesterday, to give us the incompleteness of efforts to distance ourselves from the past. Plagued with Latina & Black issues of Justice & Economics, subprime schemes & Bankrupt automakers plus who can or cannot marry.

"Now" some want to equate "today's" watershed issue with "then".

"So, Pettus Bridge was about really exposing a system of southern mistreatment of negroes at the hands of others. All along the Delta's plantations, poor blacks were "forcibly" held in a neuvo captivity."

The political means of Hamer, Evers & countless others in Mississippi, the Congress of Racial Equality in Baton Rouge in 1961, the Montgomery Bus Boycott & the many unsung-ed "rights" events; still kept the depraved conditions forced upon negroes, hid.

Still, in Selma the backlash of deprivation is evident when you take a closer look. All along "freedom's trail", the stench of backlash from Detroit to Denham Springs remains. The change then was to end "enslavement". The issues of inequality are starkly different. No one is attempting to keep any "so-called consenting adults" trapped in poverty, beginning with forced slavery and continued to this day through institutionalized mechanisms of devaluation.

When I now see, the well known of the "consented lifestyle", the culminating finality of insobriety the defiant deviance brings about is self-inflicted. No slave, thought upon himself to become one.
This defiant deviance further emboldens others, to deeper depths. Thusly, our children are trapped in a "new-age slavery", a slavery of its own making. This is not the slavery, forced upon others by the Code Noir.
Recently, photos were released of Rihanna. Proportedly nude. We were already aware of the leather. It is a consented lifestyle.

But, there are others, who are forcibly held captive in this lifestyle. Their faces are on milkboxes. Their parents are told they are runaways. Adults pay to see them on the internet.

Sorry Folks, It's Just not the Same!!