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It wasn't fair," he said looking to the floor again.(Side Bar) Convict leasing as it is called began during the Reconstruction Period because farmers needed to find replacements for the labor force once slaves were freed. I read somewhere that some prisoners make anywhere from 6 to 15 cents an hour these days. The legacy of using prison labour in the South felt normal. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-07.jpg Applause for Officer Darren Wilson Applause for Officer Darren Wilson https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-08.jpg Support of Officer Darren Wilson Support of Officer Darren Wilson https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-9.jpg "The Stripes We Wear“ | Legacy Series Lawrence McNair stands on Florissant Street without uttering a word. His eyes squinting as he faced up the 98 degrees of unforgiving heat, his arms up, and two bull eyes pasted on his chest and back. The words "Don't shoot" are scribbled inside his palms. "Someone has to stand up to these crooked cops and now is the time," he said to me when I asked why he was baking in the Sun."This is not a sacrifice, I have to do this." "The Stripes We Wear“ | Legacy Series Lawrence McNair stands on Florissant Street without uttering a word. His eyes squinting as he faced up the 98 degrees of unforgiving heat, his arms up, and two bull eyes pasted on his chest and back. The words "Don't shoot" are scribbled inside his palms. "Someone has to stand up to these crooked cops and now is the time," he said to me when I asked why he was baking in the Sun."This is not a sacrifice, I have to do this." https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-10.jpg "The Man on the Street" | Legacy Series Jon Pirtle drove down from Indiana because he could not as he put it, "continue to sit on my sofa and watch what was happening in Ferguson. It didn't feel right.“ He said that in his home State he had witnessed and heard of the same circumstances happening to his friends. "My friends have been victims, I cannot just be silent. Mike Brown deserved better," he said. "The Man on the Street" | Legacy Series Jon Pirtle drove down from Indiana because he could not as he put it, "continue to sit on my sofa and watch what was happening in Ferguson. It didn't feel right.“ He said that in his home State he had witnessed and heard of the same circumstances happening to his friends. "My friends have been victims, I cannot just be silent. Mike Brown deserved better," he said. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-12.jpg Caged Panthers| Legacy Series Caged Panthers| Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-14.jpg "A Father's Solemn Walk" Flanked by family members and the Nation of Islam, Michael Brown Sr. walks into the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church to attend the funeral service of his son Michael Brown Jr. "A Father's Solemn Walk" Flanked by family members and the Nation of Islam, Michael Brown Sr. walks into the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church to attend the funeral service of his son Michael Brown Jr. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-11.jpg "Who is our Black Leader" I watched this young man walk up to the make shift shrine where Michael Brown was killed, with a portrait of Malcolm X tucked under his arm. In the midst of a dying fire, it suddenly occurred to me that this portrait was the most I had seen of a black leader since I began walking that stretch of road. My heart has yet to resolve what I saw in Ferguson Missouri. I do not understand why the whole of America did not stop what they were doing and rise up to ensure that another young black youth does not lose their life so easily by the guns of unfeeling police officers. So today I will ask a question instead of my usual conjecture. Where is the Black leadership of this country? "Who is our Black Leader" I watched this young man walk up to the make shift shrine where Michael Brown was killed, with a portrait of Malcolm X tucked under his arm. In the midst of a dying fire, it suddenly occurred to me that this portrait was the most I had seen of a black leader since I began walking that stretch of road. My heart has yet to resolve what I saw in Ferguson Missouri. I do not understand why the whole of America did not stop what they were doing and rise up to ensure that another young black youth does not lose their life so easily by the guns of unfeeling police officers. So today I will ask a question instead of my usual conjecture. Where is the Black leadership of this country? https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Image-29.jpg “He’s dead, he’s not sleeping” “He’s dead, he’s not sleeping” https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Image-26.jpg A Broken Community | Legacy Series A Broken Community | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-15.jpg Isolated In Ferguson“ | Legacy Series "Why was he shot so many times," 19 year old Dante Newsome questioned, "I am out here because I don't understand this. Why did he lose his life so senselessly.?" "This can happen to me. Everyday that I am out hur, I feel threatened by the police." He took a puff on the lit cigarette he had between his fingers. The fire seem to come up from his belly and through his nostrils -- his words felt hot, infused by anger and frustration. "I feel helpless, I don't feel safe hur, they could have tasered him." Isolated In Ferguson“ | Legacy Series "Why was he shot so many times," 19 year old Dante Newsome questioned, "I am out here because I don't understand this. Why did he lose his life so senselessly.?" "This can happen to me. Everyday that I am out hur, I feel threatened by the police." He took a puff on the lit cigarette he had between his fingers. The fire seem to come up from his belly and through his nostrils -- his words felt hot, infused by anger and frustration. "I feel helpless, I don't feel safe hur, they could have tasered him." https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-13.jpg "Reading the Black and White“ |Legacy Series Travis Sowell pulled out his newspaper to discuss an article he was reading. The article was reporting that the St. Louis corporate elite were using the cops to terrorize Black people in Ferguson on behalf of a powerful local ruling class in St. Louis. Across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Ill., in 1917, white racist mobs murdered 250 Black people. Children were dragged off streetcars and killed. This bloody massacre wasn’t spontaneous. It was promoted by a racist campaign in local newspapers. "Reading the Black and White“ |Legacy Series Travis Sowell pulled out his newspaper to discuss an article he was reading. The article was reporting that the St. Louis corporate elite were using the cops to terrorize Black people in Ferguson on behalf of a powerful local ruling class in St. Louis. Across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Ill., in 1917, white racist mobs murdered 250 Black people. Children were dragged off streetcars and killed. This bloody massacre wasn’t spontaneous. It was promoted by a racist campaign in local newspapers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-20.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series "My son was my heart and now he has been taken away from me so innocently. He hasn't done nothing wrong, he is a good man he love his family he love his baby girl, he was going to bring home my granddaughter to visit me for the first time in two years and now I will never get the opportunity to spend time with my son and my grand baby. My son was my life. He didn't deserve to die like that," these were the tearful words of Sylvia Palmer, the mother of the Akai Gurley the Brooklyn man that was shot by an NYPD officer recently. I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series "My son was my heart and now he has been taken away from me so innocently. He hasn't done nothing wrong, he is a good man he love his family he love his baby girl, he was going to bring home my granddaughter to visit me for the first time in two years and now I will never get the opportunity to spend time with my son and my grand baby. My son was my life. He didn't deserve to die like that," these were the tearful words of Sylvia Palmer, the mother of the Akai Gurley the Brooklyn man that was shot by an NYPD officer recently. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-17.jpg Justice | Legacy Series Justice | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Image-27.jpg I Can’t Breathe | Legacy Series I Can’t Breathe | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-16.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series Fearing arrest a protestor runs away from a wall of NYPD officers. I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series Fearing arrest a protestor runs away from a wall of NYPD officers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-18.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series As marchers braved the cold rain and took to the street on the third day, they were met with a less tolerant NYPD. At every chance protestors were dragged from the street and shoved into a van but not before being handcuffed and photographed. I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series As marchers braved the cold rain and took to the street on the third day, they were met with a less tolerant NYPD. At every chance protestors were dragged from the street and shoved into a van but not before being handcuffed and photographed. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-19.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-21.jpg Who Do You Protect? | Legacy Series Who Do You Protect? | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-22.jpg Black Lives Matter | Legacy Series Black Lives Matter | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Image-28.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-25.jpg Fuck police |Legacy Series Fuck police |Legacy Series https://cdn.neonsky.app/4cacaa4d4e426/images/Goggin_edit-24.jpg I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series Five year old Delilah looks up at the pavilion and asks her mother, "Mom, do those police officers understand why these people are protesting?" "Some of them do and some of them don't," Susan replies. They were both at a "Die-In" staged at Grand Central Station. I Can't Breathe | Legacy Series Five year old Delilah looks up at the pavilion and asks her mother, "Mom, do those police officers understand why these people are protesting?" "Some of them do and some of them don't," Susan replies. They were both at a "Die-In" staged at Grand Central Station.