 America was built on blood. On slavery. On hate. White America got rich off Black labor—and that wealth? It didn’t stop. It just got passed down. Today, that same blood money still flows—through prisons, exploitation, and systems that trap Black families in generational poverty. Modern slavery looks different, but it’s still slavery.
Every dollar in this country is blood money. Every single one. Yet those who control it shame the rest of us for touching it. Poor or middle class? They’ll call your money “dirty” if it comes from certain places, from people they don’t approve of—because keeping you poor is how they stay in power. People obsess over where money comes from without realizing: no matter where you work or who pays you, it’s all blood money. The rent you pay? Blood money. Your car payments? Blood money. That lottery ticket you bought, even the Mega Millions winnings? All blood money, because the origin of the cash is part of a system built on blood. So here’s the question you should really ask: should we reject money because it came from a racist, a thief, a hustler, or someone society doesn’t like? No. The real question is: what will you do with the blood money you have, and who will benefit? No matter the source, it’s all blood money. The choice—and the power—is yours. Written By: RoShawn C. Evans Stolen Wealth: How Black Distributors Funded the Nation's Capital https://therealnews.com/stolen-wealth-black-depositors-funded-nations-capital 18 Companies that Benefit from Slavery https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1E7igUYoyG/ AIPAC https://www.aipac.org
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 In 1619, at Point Comfort, the first recorded enslaved Africans were brought to this land. That was not just a moment in history — it was the beginning of a system. A system built on stolen labor, stolen bodies, and stolen futures.
For over 240 years, Black people were legally property. The Constitution counted us as three-fifths of a person. In 1857, the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford declared that we had no rights a white man was bound to respect. And even when slavery was “abolished” in 1865, it came with a loophole, “except as punishment for crime.” That loophole became convict leasing. Chain gangs. Mass incarceration. Reconstruction gave us a glimpse of democracy, and white supremacy answered with terror. The Ku Klux Klan rose. Federal troops withdrew. Jim Crow was born. In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized segregation. Separate but equal, knowing it was never equal. They lynched us. They burned our towns, like in the Tulsa Race Massacre. They redlined our neighborhoods through the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. They denied us wealth, safety, education, and dignity. And yet, we built anyway. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education said segregation in schools was unconstitutional. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act said our vote mattered. But progress has always been met with backlash. The War on Drugs. Mandatory minimums. The 1994 Crime Bill. Policies that filled prisons with Black bodies at historic rates. In 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed. In 2014, Michael Brown was left in the street. In 2020, George Floyd took his last breath under the knee of the state. And the world finally saw what we have always known. Even now, voter suppression returns in new forms. Black history is attacked. DEI is dismantled. The racial wealth gap remains wide. The maternal mortality crisis disproportionately kills Black women. From 1619 to 2026, the system has changed its language, but it has never stopped adapting. But here’s what they cannot erase: They cannot erase that we survived slavery. They cannot erase that we built wealth when they burned it. They cannot erase that we organized when they criminalized us. They cannot erase that we vote, we lead, we create, we resist. Oppression is part of the timeline. But so is resilience. So is brilliance. So is power. They can try to rewrite history. They can try to ban the books. They can try to silence the truth. But they cannot erase what we know. And they cannot erase who we are. From 1619 to today, we are still here. And we are still fighting. Written By: RoShawn C. Evans Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon Slavery-another-name-re-enslavement-black-people-america-civil-war-world-war-ii-douglas-blackmon:siris_sil_895128 The Traumatic Impact of Structural Racism on African Americans PMC8352535 |
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