Dismal Dismas for "Nam"

Jim Crow Jr. is an elusive dude.  He is more like Zip Coon, but we can't mention him.  He is one of those stereotypical "Blackface" characters who is so insulting if viewed out of context.  I don't agree with "Blackface," although I had to understand it to make the decision.  It is out of taste.  It stems from black actors not being allowed to participate in Minstrel Shows.  During reconstruction many freed slaves found it difficult to integrate into mainstream society.  In the American South and especially Louisiana, they were not allowed to become a part of white society.  The name "Jim Crow" was coined to describe the segregation laws that attempted to keep white and blacks separate.  Jim Crow was a caricature of a poor and destitute freed slave who resorted to levity in order to survive.  He had tattered clothing and a stylized appearance like a clown.  He talked "jive" and made fun of the white man with his double talk.  He was so enigmatic and challenging minstrel actors stole his soul immediately.  They had to darken their faces with shoe polish of grease paint to appear black.  Over time the caricatures became increasingly more offensive until most black personalities were stereotyped into white accessible cartoons.  It is a distasteful element of American history.  To understand it is necessary to understand the difference between good and evil.  Blues men turned preachers tried to shed their evil ways of drinking liquor and indulging in the "Sporting Life."  Instead of getting drunk and ending up passed out in the gutter, they would desire to go to bed early and visit church on Sunday in their best suits.  In life in general it is wise to stay abreast of the difference between good and evil and who participates in both.  Zip Coon by nature, all ready at a disadvantage because of his skin color, had to be that much more clever and conniving to stay alive in an American South that embraced lynchings as fodder and entertainment.  It would be understandable that the white man's law might be bent a little by Zip Coon.  Unfortunately Jim Crow Jr. is back, and instead of using "Chain Gangs" to labor for free in full view of the public, Fayetteville, North Carolina is going to build a bona fide facility to offer free labor to some lucky Cumberland County business owner.  Most citizens in Fayetteville do not support the proposed Dismas facility all ready being built on Cain Rd.  It is the largest facility of its kind in Dismas history.  Why here?  Why now?  Why are federal prisoners going to be bussed here to live in close proximity to law abiding citizens?  It doesn't make sense, or does it?  These transplanted federal criminals will be expected to work for free in exchange for their daily release from lock up.  Work for free.  A labor force of one hundred federal prisoners is being moved here, and their labor will be used by an unnamed entity responsible for lobbying our local government to provide this service.  Who would do such a thing?  It will not be paid labor.  It will not be cheap Chinese or Indian labor.  It will be free labor.  Slave labor.  Work farm labor.  Chain gang labor.  This is the kind of labor Donald Trump favored.  It would seem the sentiment of the plantation, the building of fortune on slave labor, and social inequality by law are the desired mechanism in Fayetteville commerce.  Ask yourself what business owner in Cumberland Country would sink to such depths and risk the safety and well being of their own citizens?  This is not a virtuous gesture by Mayor Mitch Colvin.  It wreaks, and it wreaks in a big way.  There will come a time when law-abiding citizens will tire of corruption and its ensuing violence.  I think Mr. Colvin may have cemented his last term.