Enslaved captured because of their skill base Enslavers poor, constructed identities, desensitized (made to attend church built on top of the slave quaters

Enslaved captured because of their skill base Enslavers poor, constructed identities, desensitized (made to attend church built on top of the slave quaters

Enslaved captured because of their skill base Enslavers poor, constructed identities, desensitized (made to attend church built on top of the slave quaters

Destroying the Distance The First Step to a Radical Revolution to Dismantle the New Jim Crow

Anatomy of Caste Invisible Elite Governmental / Institutional Structure Buffer Class Most Vulnerable Most Exploited

Anatomy of Caste Transatlantic slave trade- American Enslavement Invisible Elite Governor/ ment Overseers/ Enslavers/ Crew Enslaved White Citizens/ The Enslaved/ Incarcerated

Architecture of Caste Jim Crow – New Jim Crow Invisible Elite International Corporations Government White Citizens Patriots The Undercaste Middle Class/ Buffer Caste The Undercaste

Defining Characteristics of the Elite Invested in land and labor as related to profit Conscious of Exploitation Addicted to Luxury Unable to imagine life without luxury/ profit/ associates Suspension of values and beliefs

Defining Characteristics of the Elite “When the rights of humanity are understood with precision…we find men, professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentile ,and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty…. Would anyone think I am a master of slaves of my own purchase!....I am drawn along by the general conveniences of living without them, I will not, I cannot, justify it.” Patrick Henry

Defining Characteristics of the Vulnerable Having little to no agency in matters related health, education, nor housing Exploited Labor Force/ Resource Often “invisibilized” and/or constructed as immoral, infantile Barometers for Society Creators and Carriers of Culture

Defining Characteristics/ Conditions of the Buffer Class Dump site for rhetorical ethics, disempowering, community destroying moral tutoring Superficial security based on finance Yet (unconsciously) financially fragile Major function is to maintain distance between and to police the poor the vulnerable. Uniquely Positioned to Dismantling Jim Crow

Dance of Redemption Reckon with Privilege Critique Rhetorical Values and Nationalistic Slogans Divest in materialistic addictions Embrace a plumb-line for justice making action Ubuntu

Plumb-line for Justice I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967