Slavery was not a choice
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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This brings more light to the fact that slavery wasn’t as far away as some ppl like to admit.
Still mad af that California refused to get rid of slavery this past election cycle
I respect African American ppl so much.
IMAGINE being stepped on and still being able to lift your head and say “I don’t deserve this.”
I get chills. I myself have struggled to find the strength when I’m being pushed down.
I can’t imagine being forced to do this in eighth grade.
And it wasn’t that long ago either.
Just like how most of our grandparents can personally remember the Jim Crow and segregation era, *their* grandparents can remember eating the lynched bodies of black people and attending public terrorist (klan) events as recreation.
95% of our history isn’t even properly taught or common knowledge to the American public. Until Americans actually learn the breadth of *what* happened, I won’t be “getting over” any damn thing.
Maybe I’m stupid but what time period is he talking about where someone would both be educated up to 8th grade and forced to pick cotton
I mean I’m definitely stupid but still
My mom picked cotton too but it wasn’t for slavery. It was the days of Jim Crowe and black people where picking it as a severely underpaid job to survive. My mom was born in 1946. Pretty sure his dad isn’t much older.
It was per pound and my mom’s family would pick it before school in the morning because the morning dew would make the cotton heavier which was more per pound.
We need to go out and support this movie the way we did for Black Panther.
My father is a math whiz and dreamed of going to Berkeley. Unfortunately for him he was born in the late 40s and was the eldest of 7 siblings. My grandparents had jobs, but just enough money to pay for living expense and barely at that. That combined with being Black led my grandfather to demand my father drop out of school so he could work. Of course he did and while eventually he had a career, Berkeley remained only a dream.
This is why I didn’t fuck around when I got to college. Pops would kill me…he told me once a week.
My great uncle from Mississippi always tells us about how when he was a child, a man would show up to their houseand tell my great grandma he needed workers for his farm and out of fear of retaliation they would just do it. To top it off, he wouldn’t even pay them money, he paid them with pecans.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”
just a reminder that abraham lincoln did NOT actually care abt freeing slaves
Saw this on FB once and every willfully ignorant white person was in the comments like “I had to pick cotton when I was a kid! You ain’t special!”
His *father*? Damn.
Did people think all the cotton up and vanished the moment the Emancipation Proclamation was signed?
America loves slavery, they gon find a way to work it in there somewhere. They made too much money and was at their height of superiority that’s an intoxicating combo for them.
I’m just really surprised that all the time growing up when we were making those license plates jokes about prisoners that most of the people making those jokes overwhelmingly failed to connect those dots. I mean, I knew that was like enshrined in law slavery. I thought other people knew. Imagine my shock when people were all agog at that 13th documentary. I thought to myself ‘y’all didn’t know? We been making jokes about that for decades now, how could you not know?” I-
It’s really a shame that someone had to make a movie to flat out take a pen, draw the line and connect the dots about that. We’re ferking doomed. The more access to technology that we have the dumber we get.
America loves rebranding oppression like it’s a new iPhone drop.
I am sure that a lot of people are well aware that slavery in the US was never outlawed, just outlawed for entities other than the government. However, I’m sure some people will be surprised and hopefully horrified to know that right now the Mississippi legislature is debating a bill that would bring back chattel slavery for undocumented immigrants.
Mississippi didn’t even officially ratify the 13th amendment until 2016 and they decided it’s been long enough without just being able to tell people they’re not people anymore.
Anyone who says slavery is a choice hasn’t scratched the surface of how horrifying it is.
The Igbo Landing? Can you imagine a fate so terrifying that an entire group of people would attempt to drown themselves before being subjected to it?
white guy here, as much as I dislike the mediocrity of Modern Marvel I wanna see this movie for Anthony Mackie’s success and the future of cinema’s success
Slavery may have officially ended, but the systemic effects still linger. This story hits hard.
And a lot of the ones that have this idea are from red states where the education is poor and will get poorer if Trump tries cutting the Department of Education
People talk about slavery in the US like it was back when the pyramids were being built.
Wait until people find out about the 14th amendment and how states decided that arresting free black people was the new slavery
I’d argue slavery was a choice, just not for the enslaved. Kanye gotta stop half reading books /s
Is any of this actually true though. Didn’t his father own his own roofing business and was actually very successful?