These two go together like pancakes and syrup, unfortunately even in 2023.
February 7, 2023, white representatives approved a bill written by Trey Lamar. NO! He’s not a brother, but a white Republican who chooses to use his black sounding middle name, instead of his surname John Thomas. Now we all know that trey is a black man’s name and so is Lamar, IJS.
What is he trying to accomplish by using his nickname. Is it to make us think he is one of us, because of the name he chose to use? No! We know who you are, John Thomas.
He wrote a bill called HB1020.
This is simply a bill that says we don’t care that 87% of the people in Mississippi are black. We white representatives will be voting for the police, judges, prosecutors, and school board members in your community even though we don’t live there.
Mississippi House of Representatives: John Thomas “Trey Lamar” District 8 Republican.
For some of the younger generation that don’t know what Jim Crow is, or what it looks like, and where it came from, and who it is, I’m here to let you know, because you need to know. This sign is what it looks like.
Jim Crow is not exactly a person, but a LEAGALIZED way to segregate black people and make them feel less than, by denying them the right to vote, get a job, get an education, live in decent housing, have affordable rent, or any other opportunities that white people have.
Those who attempted to ignore the Jim Crow laws, received punishment, arrest, fines, jail, violence and even death. OH WAIT! That sounds like now in 2023 not 1968.
The beginning of Jim Crow laws started following the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in 1865.
As soon as the white people saw that they were losing power they immediately came up with something that could restrict black people from getting ahead just like they doing now.
I love when white people ask what must they do to change this world. I always say when you admit that this country was built and made by the hands of black people and immigrants and you got rich because of it that would be a beginning. To add to that, when you take your feet off the necks of black people by leaving black history in the schools, by not getting rid of all books that relate to black history good and bad, by leaving critical race theory and DEI in the schools, by making sure that the HBCU’s get the same amount of money the PWI schools get, by finding out who is threatening the HBCU’s with bombs, by making sure that the sororities get the money they need, by stopping the gerrymandering and creating ghettos in areas with people of color, by making sure that black and brown areas are not healthy food deserts, by making sure that rent is affordable for the disenfranchised, by making sure that the young people have jobs and can go to college without putting their first born up for sale. We’ll just start from there. Reparations sounds good, at least the “idea”, 40 acres and a mule sound good, but in reality, we need so much more. From everything that was taken from us. Like the movie taken, white people have taken everything, and they still trying to take everything that the black man is. They trying to take our music and make it their own, they doing their hair like ours, they wearing the clothes we wear, they trying to talk like us, they even try to shake hands like us, they want to be us, until they can’t get a job, or rent an apartment or buy a house or walk in a store without being followed or when the police pull them over. Then they change their mind. Like that classic movie Black Like me. They want to be like us but HATE US! Make that make sense! Roland Martins book White Fear is absolutely on point. It’s all because of the fear that white people have of becoming the minority and that scares the shit out of them, because it has never happened EVER!
Every time black people seem to be getting ahead, white people come up with something in order to put their feet back on our necks and stop us from achieving anything of value. In this case that would be the black codes. They were put in place to keep us IN OUR PLACE.
These codes explicitly said where black people could work, how much they could get paid, where they could live and where they could travel, and white people could take their children for labor purposes like a layaway so to speak! Doesn’t this sound just like now. There are some places where black people won’t be hired. Paul Mooney, the comedian said when we were slaves we had 10 jobs, now that we are free we can’t get 1 and the one we got pays minimum labor. There are some areas where black people can’t move, because the rent is too high, just another form of racism EXPENSIVE. They lock up our black and brown kids for crimes that their white counterparts do, but get a fine, probation, or a warning; while our kids go to jail and stay in a cell for months, sometimes years waiting for trial, all because they can’t afford the bail.
White people will do anything to get cheap labor.
Finally, the black codes told us where we could travel and with who. So, a black Mail man created a book for black people to travel safely. It was called the Green Book.
It seems like we might have to start using this book now.
The most important reason for such a book as this was, because of the Ku Klux Klan. There were parts of the south that blacks could not go to, and these places were sometimes called the sundown places, which meant if yo black ass was caught in these towns after dark you would be lynched.
Jim Crow also meant that you could not live in white neighborhoods. Thank God for the Fair Housing act, so we can live where we want, or so it seems; except for the fact that you better not get caught jogging in your white neighborhood or you could be run down and killed.
Segregation was everywhere you went. Hospitals, restaurants, gas stations, pools, schools, can we say REDISTRICTING!
Jim Crow was also associated with a white man named Thomas Rice.
In his song he mentions Jim Crow while doing his minstrel show. Black people have always been characterized as dumb, stupid, lazy, shiftless, clowning, and always giving white people a show. But other than that Jim Crow was the way of life back in the good old days when America was great. Make America great again (Maga) REALLY REALLY!!! I DON’T THINK SO
Jim Crow was basically in the confederate states such as: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and Virginia. However, it did slide into some of the Northern states as well, but most northern states didn’t allow it.
Jim Crow made sure that black people and women couldn’t vote. The women were not allowed to vote, and the men had to pay poll taxes, and guess how many jellybeans were in a jar. They had to have money in the bank or some property and yet they still had to have a white man vouch for them. Literally like Tennessee 3 or as I like to say Tennessee 2 The white woman Gloria Johnson spoke up for the young black men.
This country is becoming increasingly racist in every way imaginable.
It is a dictatorship with an autocratic environment instead of a democratic sovereign state.
Just in case you still don’t understand or know what Jim Crow is, here are some pictures to show you what it looks like.
NOW IF THIS IS WHAT YOU MEAN BY MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THEN BY ALL MEANS DON’T VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY BLACK PEOPLE, WHITE PEOPLE, HISPANIC, HMONG, GAY, STRAIGHT, YOUNG, OLD, DEMOCRAT, REPUBLIC, WOMEN AND MEN, RICH, AND POOR, JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH THE TRAGEDIES PILE UP. AS DR PHIL SAYS, “HOW IS THAT WORKING FOR YOU”
BOOGALOO BOYS
PROUD BOYS
KU KLUX KLAN
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
THIS IS THE REAL JIM CROW