The bold is too strong a statement.
if you grown up in a lifestyle, and live out the entirety of your life in that lifestyle..regardless of how bad it is, it's normalized....
slavery was extremely traumatizing.....
but imagine being told you're free one day,
having no where to go, and no idea what to do.....that generation was prolly more terrified than any generation previously...
and lets think about the next...okay i was born free, but i have to live in constant fear of anyone white....even if i'm chilling with my friends. minding my business, actually having a great time enjoying this slice of pie we have.....all it takes is a lie, and my friend can be snatch and lynched, and even though we're told we're free, there's nothing we can do
next generation....fuck it we gonna build communities and do our own thing....nope...that shit gets bombed. stomped out...and now since we think we the shit, we're forced to live with people who remind us every day we ain't shit...
next generations....every single time a great leader emerges yall either kill them or drive them out the country...
THEN ..... yall want yall slaves back, so yall just start throwing niggaz in jail for anything just to keep the slave population up...
cuz that's all jail is....slaves..
before slavery ended our prison population wasnt outta control.... but after slavery was abolished. our prison population is more than whole countries....AND TO MAKE THINGS WORSE despite being considered a minority in the country, our people are the majority in prison....
so i mean.....