Plantation manager in 1966

This was only 60 years ago…people act like we are so far removed from our history and we really aren’t.

The dread and hopelessness on their faces, their rigid postures as if walking on eggshells, being coaxed to compliment and boost up the oppressor, not having any choice but to advocate for your oppression cause speaking up meant dire consequences.... Jesus this broke my heart.

People try to act like this shit is ancient history, and it's just not. This is very fucking recent still and people just want to forget but not repare.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

Never forget the cruelty of man..

"Mississippi: A Sel Portrait" was a will-known and controversial 1966 NBC News documentary. (Back when the broadcast networks practiced actual journalism)

The film is available to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/_8cuFsAqmKM?is=5ku9lk0N_WOYOiQj

There’s so many of them that would sell their very soul to have that as the way things are now.

He had them rehearse for days and beat them into knowing what to say.. furnished the homes and stocked the fridge himself.. they werent allowed to touch anything until crew was done then he took it all away i expect

less than a hundred years ago...

Creepy asf

Why is his belt 6 in below his tits?