With no more cotton to pick, what will Amerika do with 40 million Black people?

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Very sad story of systematic social and economic exclusion of African Americans. This is an immense personal tragedy for black teenagers. Unemployment statistics (the true ones) reveal that 83% of black male teens are unemployed nationally. In Chicago, the figure is 92%: Black Youth Project

Originally posted on Moorbey'z Blog:

by Phillip Jackson

What will America do with 40 million Black Americans now that there is no more cotton to pick? Even in states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, Black people are no longer involved in the planting, growing or harvesting of cotton.

Nowadays these tasks are performed by White and Latino men and women. They drive machines that plant and pick the cotton while millions of Black men in the South are unemployed since transitioning from slave labor to surplus labor. And although picking cotton is not the most desirable job, for Black people in America, there is no more cotton to pick.

Our American economy was built on the backs of Black slaves who were initially brought to America to work in the cotton, tobacco and sugar cane fields. America’s dilemma today is what to do with 40 million Black American descendants of those slaves who were shipped…

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