Can we get free in America? Can we have our share of liberty and justice too? Has that all been robbed from us when our ancestors came bearing shackles and chains that burnt into their flesh? Does our freedom lie in the country that breathes our blood? Or is it still swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, scales glowing copper and sea green? Is liberation a wet dream, or is liberation a green screen behind the eyes of those who bleed free? In Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s chapter, “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” she examines the strategies of how various Black organizations and movements have defined the concept and project of “Black liberation” In modern-day society you can still see those strategies being made and being reevaluated to…show more content… But when you look at it whom are we setting free? Who is now free from imprisonment, slavery, and oppression? Ever since Blacks were taken over to America as objects, tools used to better the lives of slave owners and the majority of the white population, the thought of liberation has long since been applied. In Taylor’s chapter it says, “… Black liberation implies a world where Black people can live in peace, without the constant threat of the social, economic, and political woes of a society that places almost no value of the vast majority of Black lives. It would mean living in a world where Black lives matter” (Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Pg. 194). A world that Black people can live in peace is not a world that we live in now, that world has been an illusion to Black people ever since the Civil War ended in 1865, and it has continued to be an illusion to us. We are still being stopped and frisked, and we are still getting arrested and kept in prisons for minor charges. In the book “The New Jim Crow” the author has a focus on the incarceration and prison system and how people wind up in such predicaments, in one of the discussion about incarceration it says “Moreover, most people in state prisons for drugs offenses have no history of violence of significant selling activity” (The
