Bren Kelly
2 min readMar 24, 2023

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It’s really about what made the difference in black American repression that was and is foundational. Black Americans in the 15 states after slavery were institutionally and legally locked of equal schooling, ability to marry someone from the opposite race, ability to travel equally on transport, accused of “laziness” so that accusation would allow the sheriff to arrest them and put them in chain gangs to rent out to farmers or to make roads and railroads, because of the “hole” in the thirteenth amendment that allowed prisoners to be legally enslaved.
These atrocities were done all because of skin color. Black Americans in the South had no protection federally, and were subject to brutal lynchings and massacres without the rights to due process that whites had. These deaths were constant, and the white Americans committing them were not tried at all for murdering black Americans they accused for unproven trifles like stealing, talking back to whites, and 35 percent of the time time rape—but unproven and sometimes when tired and found acquitted still lynched anyway. This absence of American constitutional justice for black Americans in the South and a few other neighboring states and the presence of that constitutional justice for whites (except then they committed atrocities against black Americans), was foundation-ally because of skin color, not because of disparities in Wealth and central bankers. Poor whites got tried and convicted, perhaps unfairly, but not submitted to continual humiliation simply because of their skin color. While wealth is a contributing factor to repression, it does not account for the vast disparity in treatment.
Look at the photo of Lloyd Warner from 1933 on Google. The whites standing in front of his charred remains, thousands had watched him burn alive. This was not a one of killing, but common. There is no moral equivalent for whites. You will find no pictures from these hundred year period of whites hanging from trees while a whole town watched. Those who hung would disagree, and would probably rather live in poverty than burn, shot and hung.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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