Performative Enactment of Slave Trading

Media Silence Over Trafficking of Colored Humans

Texas Governor Abbott announces a fresh shipment of coloreds arrive to clean homes and work in the fields and sends them up North [clip from NYTimes videographer]

“A political stunt.” That’s how the media is calling the obvious repetition over structural slavery. So, what is Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis doing that goes far beyond the cutesy comment of “politician stunt”? And why are black Americans furious?

I’m not black, full disclosure, but I am furious now. I’m slow for a white man; it takes me time to put two plus two together. And no one else was doing it for me in the media.

They were masking the horror over what these white “leaders” are really doing: slave trading.

I know, that’s a heavy accusation, but at least let me explain and demonstrate the mechanisms and machinery of it functions before you start bashing me. I’m not looking at vaguely defined words but the functions of how the actual machinery works and who and how it is driven and paid for.

Originally, taking blacks across interstate lanes without citizen papers was how slaves were brought around the South from ports in Maryland and Virginia. Slave humans were shackled together chain gang style and forced marched across the country in a “coffle.” (See an excellent description of the Cof-fle from Medium analyst and historical investigator Mr. William Spivey.)