there's a huge difference between this shit happening when you know you're a salve, and when you think you're free...The problem is you're just writing off slavery as something they had adjusted too, but that's not the case. You never really get use to that. I mean you note that two generations later you could just be trying to make the best of your life and through some minor incident someone you love gets murdered. You don't think that same dynamic happened when in blacks were enslaved? As a matter of fact, pretty much every bad thing you listed for what happened to blacks after slavery also happened during slavery.
Slaves were routinely sold as property often is and that left them feeling confused and uncertain of the future just as you noted for the next generation.
Slaves were property of their masters and subject to the whims of those masters and every other white person, so they lived in constant fear just as you noted for the next generation.
In the next generation, you note that blacks build only to have what they built destroyed by racist terrorism. That's bad, but at least they get to experience what its like to build. Slaves only got the racist terrorism side of the equation.
What exactly do you think happened to the slaves on the plantation that stood up and tried be a leader among the slaves? They were either killed or humbled in a very violent and humliating way.
lol What do you mean the prison population wasn't out of control before slavery ended? During slavery 95% of the black population was essentially in prison.
You're kinda underselling what life as a slave was like.
the illusion of freedom magnifies all those trauma....
that's my opinion...i don't feel i'm underselling it....i'm jut highlighting how this shit stings a lot more when you feel like it's not supposed to be happening, vs just accepting it
mad people who have been to prison say the hardest 2 days are the day you arrive and the day you leave.....
anxiety of not knowing is a motherfucker