The NYC mayor was right when he said last night that we shouldnt have to say black lives matter. We should be able to take it for granted. In the 1780s the British Society for the Abolition of Slavery adopted as its official seal a woodcut of a kneeling slave above a banner that read, Am I Not A Man And A Brother? More than a hundred years later, black sanitation workers in the Poor Peoples Campaign answered the slaves question with signs worn around their necks that read: I Am A Man. Today, fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Acts and the supposed demise of the old Jim Crow, we have the mayor of New York City acknowledging that we are, once again, at a point in our history where black people must raise signs saying Black Lives Matter because it is so blatantly obvious that the lessons of our history have yet to be learned.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:40:18 +0000
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