Slavery by Another Name: The Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

[frush11]

Saw this when it first aired on PBS, and just saw it again last week. It shocks me, that this video and the book is the only place I have heard that situation discussed.

So many companies, and family estates were built or made even wealthier of this sick shiit. This needs to talked about more.

 

[tmonster]

recorded it but havent watched it
smh I feel I know the story too well already

 

[JBoy]

will check this out later, thanks for the link

 

[Deezy314619]

We not tryna be technical huh? I still count the prison complex as 'slavery' in the modern world today. But I'm pissed about it all. Finna watch this, good looks

 

[Strapped]

kpbs keeps me informed

 

[tmonster]

We not tryna be technical huh? I still count the prison complex as 'slavery' in the modern world today. But I'm pissed about it all. Finna watch this, good looks

agreed

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Still need to read the book. Great doc tho.

 

[frush11]

We not tryna be technical huh? I still count the prison complex as 'slavery' in the modern world today. But I'm pissed about it all. Finna watch this, good looks

Just giving your the proper title, that's all

 

[Box Cutta]

*subs*
*bump*

 

[Blackking]

Saw this when it first aired on PBS, and just saw it again last week. It shocks me, that this video and the book is the only place I have heard that situation discussed.

So many companies, and family estates were built or made even wealthier of this sick shiit. This needs to talked about more.

this seems interesting...
some chick came over and showed me on my own TV that I have youtube right in the shyt

so i can watch when i get home today. thanks (n rep) for the link.

 

[superunknown23]

I'll never understand why my grandpa went to fight in WW2 for a country that treated him like shyt.
When they returned, the white soldiers were received as heroes with parades while the blacks soldiers were ushered off the back of the ships and returned to 2nd-class citizenship under Jim Crow. The white soldiers got promoted and help with the GI Bill (free education, jobs, housing, loans, etc).
Black soldiers got zero recognition until the 1990s (token ceremonies during the Clinton years)

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I'll never understand why my grandpa went to fight in WW2 for a country that treated him like shyt.
When they returned, the white soldiers were received as heroes with parades while the blacks soldiers were ushered off the back of the ships and returned to 2nd-class citizenship under Jim Crow. The white soldiers got promoted and help with the GI Bill (free education, jobs, housing, loans, etc).
Black soldiers got zero recognition until the 1990s (token ceremonies during the Clinton years)

shyt's sad, but I guess there was a belief that things would change if they serve. Plus I have to imagine military service was a better opportunity than what was available, but then again that was a lot of open factory jobs that they could've took. Quiet as kept tho, Black involvement in both World Wars was in a way helpful because it brought more militant minds to the movement and connected them with other parts of the world they may not of seen had they abstained.

I like how America went out of their way to not send Black troops to Ethiopia during Britain's operation to end the Italian occupation. I wonder if Black Africans in the Free France army or the French army of WWI interacted with Black soldiers from America at any point during those wars.

 

[superunknown23]

shyt's sad, but I guess there was a belief that things would change if they serve. Plus I have to imagine military service was a better opportunity than what was available, but then again that was a lot of open factory jobs that they could've took. Quiet as kept tho, Black involvement in both World Wars was in a way helpful because it brought more militant minds to the movement and connected them with other parts of the world they may not of seen had they abstained.

I like how America went out of their way to not send Black troops to Ethiopia during Britain's operation to end the Italian occupation. I wonder if Black Africans in the Free France army or the French army of WWI interacted with Black soldiers from America at any point during those wars.

My grandpa told me that he did it out of youthful excitement/curiosity and he also thought it could make whites respect him more. In reality, it didn't change shyt in the South (one of his military friends was almost beaten to death by a white mob upon returning).
He fled Alabama and moved to NYC a couple years later.
The only one who was impressed by black soldiers was Harry Truman, who desegregated the military by Executive Order against the will of his generals and the white population (it was the only way he could do it because it had zero chance of passing in Congress in a deeply racist era)... Dude had balls and it almost cost him re-election that year.

A funny thing though: My grandpa said that his first "relations" with a white woman happened during his deployment (European campaign)

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

My grandpa told me that he did it out of youthful excitement/curiosity and he also thought it could make whites respect him more. In reality, it didn't change shyt in the South (one of his military friends almost was beaten to death by a white mob upon returning).
He fled Alabama and moved to NYC a couple years later.
The only one who was impressed by black soldiers was Harry Truman, who desegregated the military by Executive Order against the will of his generals and the white population (it was the only way he could do it because it had zero chance of passing in Congress in a deeply racist era)... Dude had balls and it almost cost him re-election that year.

A funny thing though: My grandpa said that his first "relations" with a white woman happened during his deployment (European campaign)

That's terrible. And I'm sure they really sold that shyt to Black people at the time that it'd be a journey of excitement and adventure to serve Uncle Sam. I ain't know Harry Truman did that, I thought he used to be a member of the Klan in his younger years? If so, then it'd make the shift in course all the more impressive.

I'ma take a wild guess and say your Granddad was in France cuz them French girls love Black men.

 

[superunknown23]

That's terrible. And I'm sure they really sold that shyt to Black people at the time that it'd be a journey of excitement and adventure to serve Uncle Sam. I ain't know Harry Truman did that, I thought he used to be a member of the Klan in his younger years? If so, then it'd make the shift in course all the more impressive.

I'ma take a wild guess and say your Granddad was in France cuz them French girls love Black men.

The worst part was how the military always used black soldiers as bait on the battlefield. Whenever they were unsure if the Nazis where controlling an area, they would send the black soldiers first on "reconnaissance" patrols... They were basically canon fodder
That shyt also happened during the Vietnam War and created racial tensions within the US regiments.

It was Woodrow Wilson who had Klan sympathies (ww1). The 1900-1920s was the golden era for the Klan (they had millions of members, were respected and marched on Washington!). Blacks were getting lynched on a regular basis in those days...
It didn't stop Jack Johnson from acting a fool though