Abbott’s Modern Coffle Display of Power

Because Degradation by Confederate MAGAs Never Gets Old

The chains of the enslaved (circa 1910) dug up in Sugarland Texas from Imperial Sugar where their bodies were thrown into shallow graves under the leasing contract with the State of Texas who owned the leases. [Fort Bend County photo archieve]

Governor Abbott is now being sued by a black Democrat, Mayor Adams of NYC, over his chilling practice of what is clearly meant to emulate a powerful white man shipping minorities at will around the country. It is reprehensible and the most openly white racist act in politics.

The historical reference is clear even if the word, coffle, is not. I find this shipping of minorities around the country very like a coffle, a slavery practice where millions of black Americans were linked in chains and forced march to plantations for hundreds of years, all the way up until 1860.

Obviously that practice continued with the chain gangs of convict leasing into the 20th century when southern states rented out black Americans through state convicts. Black men marched around counties and states from just after the Civil War to the 1910s or so, when they probably were moved not by walking but by vehicle or in the back of a prison trailer pulled by horses to their worksite they were rented out to.

These Southerners like DeSantis and Abbott are clearly following one the of the longest, most despicable habits of human rights violations in Colonial American and American history, the sign of enslavement, convicted leasing, criminalizing minorities to keep up the image…