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Author: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The fight against racism in modern America

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What’s in it for me? Get woven into the Black liberation movement.

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s last essay, “A Testament of Hope,” from 1968, he called for “a more aggressive political involvement,” hoping that it could facilitate Black liberation. A great deal of progress has been made since the civil rights movement. But, as these blinks make clear, there is still a long way to go before we can claim to live in a truly equitable society.

From Black poverty’s origins in slavery to police violence against Black people, you’ll be taken on a tour through the politics and racial inequality that has led America to where it is today: in a society that some say is “color-blind” but where everyday racism can be found in many places, from welfare cuts to Black criminalization – and where a new Black liberation movement is currently emerging.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how even Obama perpetuated the myth that Black problems result from bad culture;
that the notion of a “color-blind” society is a cover for racial discrimination; and
what the Black Codes of 1865 entailed and how they gave rise to Black criminalization.

Problems in Black communities are often misidentified as a cultural issue rather than a systemic one.

You’re probably aware that slavery was abolished in the southern United States during the Civil War. Despite this landmark event, President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking nearly one hundred years later, made it clear that “freedom is not enough” and that we still need “equality as a result.”

Under Johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, and it outlawed any discrimination based on race or color. Yet it did little to alleviate the problems, such as crime and poverty, that remained pervasive throughout African-American communities.

One of the reasons these problems continue to persist is because they’re blamed on cultural weaknesses.

When Republican representative Paul Ryan speaks about high unemployment rates in impoverished Black communities, he calls it a “culture problem.” Ryan suggests that people in these communities are unfamiliar with the value of work.

When President Obama spoke about the violence in Chicago neighborhoods, he suggested it was the result of bad choices made by Black youths, saying, “We have to provide stronger role models than the gangbanger on the corner.”

This thinking shifts the problem onto Black people and their lack of discipline rather than acknowledging the real causes of poverty and inequality throughout the country. It also perpetuates the misrepresentation of Black people as lazy criminals who are opposed to authority and education.

But the truth is, Black poverty has been built into American society since the times of slavery, and this is the real problem we’re facing.

The very economy and democracy that America was built on relied on slavery to support the nation’s cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco industries. And after the abolition of slavery and the fight for civil rights, Black suffering didn’t just come to an end.

During decades of economic struggle, Black people have been unemployed as well as underemployed, improperly housed and poorly schooled. During the Nixon and Reagan administrations, social-welfare programs had their funding slashed, the effects of which are still damaging Black communities today.

As the following blinks will show, racism still exists long after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. And it’s fueling a new Black liberation movement.

Politicians have spread the false message of a “color-blind” society in order to push a harmful agenda.

It would be a big mistake to think that any bill passed by Congress would wipe the slate clean and turn the United States into a “post-racial” society.

But this is exactly the image some people have tried to promote. In the 1970s, politicians began calling America a “color-blind” nation, while racism continued to divide the country.

Despite the advancements of Black politicians, real change has failed to take place.

If you have an interest in civil rights, you may recall April 19, 2015, the day 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from the injuries he sustained after being arrested and viciously beaten by Baltimore police officers.

There was no reason for this tragic death; Gray was neither armed nor a violent criminal. It was an all-too-familiar incident of a young man being stopped by police merely because he was Black and poor.

The legal and justice system have kept African-Americans criminalized.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery throughout the country in 1865, but Southern states went on to find other ways of keeping their Black populations in servitude.

Many places enforced Black Codes, such as the one in Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish, which stated that “every negro is required to be in the regular service of a white person,” or else he would be arrested.

The continued cases of police violence, and failure of Black leadership, launched a new era of activism.

Many people believed in the ideals of “hope” and “change” that accompanied Barack Obama’s electoral campaign and eventual win of the 2008 presidential election. For the first time in history, 64 percent of eligible Black voters cast their ballots – an unprecedented turnout.

But the enthusiasm of those voters would eventually turn to disillusionment, as Obama’s presidency proved to be incapable of changing the systemic violence and racial inequality in the United States.

Protests and activist organizations proliferated following the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson.

Sadly, the deaths of young Black men at the hands of police continued on August 9, 2014, when Mike Brown was killed in the small town of Ferguson, Missouri.

Darren Wilson, a white police officer, was responding to a report of shoplifting when he confronted Mike Brown, who’d taken a pack of cigarillos from a convenience store. Wilson then shot and killed Brown, whose body would be left at the scene for over four hours, exposed to the hot summer sun.

We must acknowledge the relationship between racism and capitalism and unite the working classes.

When we look back at the protests during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, we can see the fight for equal rights as also being a fight against the forces of capitalism that have kept Black people down.

In the 1960s, there was a clear understanding of how capitalism produced hardship for the Black population, and how socialism offered a promising alternative to improve society and race relations.

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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016) brings you up-to-date on the ongoing struggle for Black liberation in the United States. Discover the real reasons why racism continues to fracture America and why activist organizations like Black Lives Matter remain a much needed force for change. The fight is far from over, so find out what you can do to be part of the solution.

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The black political elite has no fundamental political difference with the status quo in the United States. . .

—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Über den Autor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor at Princeton University at the department of African American Studies. You can find her writing on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in such publications as Culture and Society, New Politics, the Guardian and International Socialist Review.

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