George Zimmerman, the Murder of Trayvon Martin, and the Twenty-First Century Slave Patrol

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If there is a version of Godwin’s law for discussing African American slavery and the Black Holocaust I always try to step delicately around it. Far too often words such as “lynching,” “racism,” “field negro,” “house negro,” “plantation,” and “slave catcher” are thrown around with casual disregard for the historical weight which they carry.

In following the most recent developments regarding the murder of Trayvon Martin, I keep returning to one thought.

So much of the existential, psychic, and emotional violence afflicted on people of color in this society is prefaced on a basic idea: there are those who “naturally” belong to a political community and others who are perpetual “guests,” “outsiders,” or “anti-citizens.”

The Black Freedom Struggle was many things: primarily, it was about a fight for civic inclusion, equality, and dignity. The Black Freedom Struggle was also centered on a politics of respectability which keenly understood that white supremacy was dependent on a basic premise: the lowest white person is automatically elevated in social stature, respect, and accomplishment over the most accomplished, brilliant, intelligent, and graceful black person.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/03/21/george-zimmerman-the-murder-of-trayvon-martin-and-the-twenty-first-century-slave-patrol/?

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Enough said..............

To Be Black in America ...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/to_be_black_in_america_20120323/?ln

Zimmerman’s Black Friend: He said ‘goons’ not ‘coons’ — it’s a term of endearment!

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/03/25/zimmermans-black-friend-he-said-goons-not-coons-its-a-term-of-endearment/

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1. Gated Communities are 21st Century Sundown Towns and service economy plantations

Nothing has changed in the private lives behind armed and gated walls in the American South, except the rhetoric. This is still a slave economy, only the slavery is no longer strictly racial but remains largely along lines of class and caste.

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2. K & R