Who did it to you..Roundtable Discussion with Dr James Jones and Bro Muhammad

A very reasonable argument could be made that the swiftest path to understanding any culture is via an investigation of the symbols and icons that they use as sturdy pillars that their society rests upon. Any serious study of Race in America will undoubtedly unearth the personage of Jim Crow.

In very quick order, Jim Crow became the living symbol of racial oppression for African-Americans on a host of fronts ranging from the Law through social customs designed to ensure that both free and enslaved Blacks understood what was expected of them on a moment-by-moment basis. Failure to adhere one’s life to the always shifting rules and regulations governing Southern life held enormous immediate repercussions for Blacks residing throughout this entire nation. There has never been a single-moment since his creation that Jim Crow has not been synonymous with White supremacy and Black oppression.

The 14-year-old charged with killing his family of five in north Alabama recently learned the woman he believed to be his mother wasn’t a biological parent, a relative said.