In the days of sharecropping and slavery, African-Americans were hindered by a machine called Jim Crow. Under this plan it was completely legal to swindle farmers for most or all of their crops. Black farmers bought feed, seed, plow and mule on credit when the crops were not harvested and paid it all back when the crops came in plus risk money for borrowing anyway. At the end of the season, they may never see a dollar, but they did a whole years worth of work. At the sound of such gross injustice, who would not raise a hand to protest against the rape and pillage of black economy in the south. It would be a miscarriage of all that was fair. I understand that, but I also know that you can’t make nobody change their ways. The external issues would remain the same for generations if something else did not happen. When black people began to prize education, then the chains came loose. You can’t cheat someone when they absolutely know that they have been cheated. You can’t keep them tied to the land when they absolutely know that they are free. When we became readers and writers and mathematicians and journalist and lawyers and doctors and educators, we became free. An educated man will never be bound and an ignorant man will never be free.
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