Slave State (eBook)

Evidence of Apartheid in America

Curtis Ray Davis (Autor)

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2019
92 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-7330616-1-2 (ISBN)

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Slave State is an incarcerated authors attempt to illustrate historical and contemporary failures in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. It is a collection of essays and articles written by a man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to serve the balance of his life in a modern day penal colony in Louisiana, known commonly as Angola. He was actually innocent, but truthful convictions are not the aim of the weaponized legal system constructed by the White Supremacist who designed the States penal code in the Jim Crow era.The obvious questions are (1) How did the State of Louisiana come to lead the entire world in per capita incarceration of her citizens? and (2) why are over 80 percent of her prisoners of African descent?Antebellum scholars and academicians debate the actual genesis of the Jim Crow system of racial segregation practiced in the Southern United States. However, almost all of them agree that the advent of the Black Codes immediately following the Civil War represented the definite legal codification of institutional discrimination based solely on race. According to the legislators who crafted Louisianas Constitution these laws were specifically designed to subjugate the African American population and perpetuate White Supremacy into infinitum.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...........................................................................................................................iii INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................1 SECTION ONE: What You Won’t Do For Love ................................................................................5 Essay 1: Barack Obama: The hope for a better world? ....................................13 Essay 2: Open Address to the Louisiana Legislature .......................................17 Essay 2: Message to the Black Church ...............................................................21 Essay 3: Message to the Black Church (Part 2): Innocence Matters ..............24 Essay 4: Parole Eligibility: A Safeguard Against Injustice ...............................30 SECTION TWO: Vignette #2 – Angola Will Kill You ..............................................................33 Essay 1: I wish I would’ve Known Better ..........................................................38 Essay 2: Today’s Black Woman ...........................................................................44 Essay 3: The Uphill Climb ...................................................................................46 Essay 4: Crime is a social disease .......................................................................50 SECTION 3: Welcome to Tunica Hills ........................................................................................55 Essay 1: Phantoms ................................................................................................59 Essay 2: Humanitarian exercise or Slavery? ......................................................63 Essay 3: Behind Enemy Lines .............................................................................66 Essay 4: Louisiana Back to Business as Usual? .................................................68 SECTION 4: Vignette # 4 Isolation ...............................................................................................71 Essay 1: The Ricky Davis Affair: A Hurricane Katrina Story .........................75 Essay 2: Louisiana Must Decarcerate.................................................................79 Essay 3: An Ex-Convict Challenges Caddo Sheriff Prator’s Tough Talk .......81 EPILOGUE .................................................................................................................................................83

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Schlagworte: African America • Angola prison • Apartheid • Black Studies • Crime • criminal justice • Law • Louisiana • penitentiary • Racism • Reform • Slavery • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-7330616-1-4 / 1733061614
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7330616-1-2 / 9781733061612