The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare

[regkam]

http://www.tomdispatch.com/dialogs/print/?id=175215

Excerpt from article....."*There are more African Americans under correctional control today -- in prison or jail, on probation or parole -- than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.

*As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.

* A black child born today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during slavery. The recent disintegration of the African American family is due in large part to the mass imprisonment of black fathers.

*If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas have been labeled felons for life.  (In the Chicago area, the figure is nearly 80%.) These men are part of a growing undercaste -- not class, caste -- permanently relegated, by law, to a second-class status.  They can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits, much as their grandparents and great-grandparents were during the Jim Crow era."....

[Setep Seqen Ma'at]

Sounds like the after effects of Reconstruction Part II after the Civil Rights Movement. Things went into decline after the 1970s to now. Isn't funny how history repeats itself? After the Civil War in the 1860s, you had Reconstruction but then after the 1870s exactly 100 years before the fact, you had one of the worst periods in Black history after the 1870s until the 1920s. Even the caricatures in the media show a striking comparison. In the 1900s you had coonery, Bert Williams and George Walker in Blackface, and Stephin Fechit (although he came later). In the 2000s you have coonery once again only more modernized with bling, money but still the same scenario with the Lil' Wayne, the Yin Yang Twins, and all other host of Black cartoon characters, LOL!