Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security

At this time, the colonial leaders enacted a system of racial classification that would elevate European immigrants and their descendants as “White” and all others classified as non-White and African. For Africans, this came with a destiny of servitude in perpetuity and even applied to those who lived free in the colonies for several generations.

you will no longer be the sideline participant in a marathon of inequity. The

It was the lazy Blacks who made your neighborhoods unsafe and threatened your lineage’s purity and survival due to interracial relationships. These narratives converged in a cacophony of social media and mainstream media outlets on a constant loop. The tools of the wealthy class were deployed in full force to shape thinking and mobilize fear into a

The measurement of success would be based on the assessment of the person who filed the complaint and whether they felt the offender has made a good faith effort to improve their behavior and that there have been noticeable changes in conduct.

The sheer Caucacity to suggest that I’m unwilling to consider other people’s paths towards change when my people have had to accommodate white’s comfort ever since we were integrated into their broader society. She hadn’t considered that I am only four generations removed from slavery and only two generations removed from Jim Crow segregation.

The reason why Cubans in Miami’s Little Havana will not allow a non-Cuban business to be erected in their section of the city is that they know if you allow others to supply your community’s needs, the economic strength of your community is jeopardized as the dollar no longer circulates among its own people.

an anti-racist improvement plan (ARIP). This plan would include required activities such as: Mandatory unconscious bias training Reading of selected anti-racist books

There were over 100 people on the call, but only about six or seven of us spoke. It’s typical for this to happen as most Black folks are still unclear on how safe it is to fully express their concerns in open forums, especially those that have whites present.

this state over the age of eighteen years found on the second Monday in January 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day - or nighttime, and all white persons so assembling with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes, or usually associating with freedmen, free Neg