On this two-year anniversary of George Floyd's death we go way back to the real roots of slavery and discuss what they have to do with the milling industry and trains, and why on some level we are all slaves to our government. This episode is incredibly triggering. We have no intentions of discounting the modern plight of black America, but rather aim to take a look at the way the system is broken and keeps not only black America - but low and middle-class America oppressed on some level. The history books would have you believe one thing - it's the victors who write them. Would it be an episode on the Civil War Era if we didn't mention Cooter Brown? We also dive into the topic of social justice and "being triggered."
Some other reads to back up this episode, from all sorts of unreliable news:
The Projects https://www.epi.org/publication/race-public-housing-revisiting-federal-role/
Uncle Tom Documentary https://www.uncletom.com/
Riot Areas https://www.kenoshanews.com/kenoshas-downtown-vision-project-a-year-later-still-happening-but-with-different-development-partners/article_334a3da8-8735-5875-b8c4-0f91cdee60e3.html
Barbaric! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU
Aunt Jemima https://abcnews.go.com/US/untold-story-real-aunt-jemima-fight-preserve-legacy/story?id=72293603
More Aunt Jemima https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-aunt-jemima-family-members-fight-against-rebranding-20200622-frn67vaptvc4zizqf5eoqd5x4y-story.html
Black Lives Matters $$ https://www.businessinsider.com/black-lives-matter-tax-filing-cofounder-paid-800000-brother-security-2022-5
Black Lives Matter $$ https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22016442/blmgnf.pdf
Africans/Slavery https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53444752
Slaves https://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
Cooter Brown https://www.almanac.com/fact/who-was-cooter-brown-as-in-drunk
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