Is slavery still relevant?
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 11/07/2020

This video is about the lasting effects of slavery, racism, colonialism, war, annexation and state formation in the United States. In this video, I connect the past to the present to help people get more perspective on current events, like the uprising following the death of George Floyd, and police and right-wing responses to it.

The racist history of jaywalking: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/13/the-classist-racist-history-of-jaywalking/

The Irish were not slaves: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/irish-slaves-myth.html

Racism and the Enlightenment: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html

How American racism influenced Hitler and the Nazis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler 

Racial disparities in the legal system: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2018/06/27/452819/ending-war-drugs-numbers/

Drivers are attacking protesters with their cars: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/bloomington-car-attack-protesters.html

Far-right militias in the US: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander: https://newjimcrow.com/