Ep. 8 - JIM CROW Era & Laws

When Emancipation for Black people was won, after so many lives lost in our Civil War, that should have been the start of a new chapter in this country - one that would start the healing from all the ugliness promoted by the enslavement of Black people.  It did not.  What happened, instead, was a vicious and shameful recalibration of the 'white supremacy' mindsets.   "JIM CROW" came to be the code word for the whole package of ways in which some white people were willing to show themselves as aggressively attached to subjugating Black people so that they (whites) could be the 'superior' race.   

Before George Floyd's murder, I was not clear on how all the pieces of white supremacy, lynchings, voter repression, black face 'entertainment,' separate-but-equal, the perpetuation of poverty and lack of opportunity for Black people was all tied together.  This brief intro to understanding what is included in that one phrase, Jim Crow era, is the purpose of this episode.

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