By Christopher Cannon
The events of fighting for my rights against Florida’s corrupt conservative led government led me to write Slave State. It also, highlighted the undeniable clear control the wealthy elites have over our government and legal system and how it is used against the majority of Americans.
Below is the synopsis from the back cover.
Dispersed across the country, people are suffering long lasting and sometimes extreme cases of financial hardships. Poverty is no longer confined to just uneducated and criminalized citizens, but good and decent hard-working families are subject to this phenomenon. Prolonged financial difficulty increases the likely hood of catastrophic circumstances, family degradation and increased mental and physical health decline.
The author takes you on his own first-hand account of his experiences dealing with the fallout of a corrupt legal system leading to loss of vehicle and homelessness. He shows how anyone on either side of the political spectrum can be easily impacted by the current system. He also entices you into critically thinking about a more tangible and realistic intentions behind the system that we are enslaved by.
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Slave State
By Curtis Ray Davis ll
I cannot add my book with out adding Curtis Davis’s book Slave State. Yes, they share the same name. His book preceded mine. In my book half of it is geared towards income inequality and the corruption of the wealthy in our government institutions. But, both books shares the Injustices of our system. Certainly the black community especially in the south can relate to the Injustices that have persisted as illustrated by Curtis.
Slave State is an incarcerated author’s attempt to illustrate historical and contemporary failures in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. It is a collection of essays and articles written by a man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to serve the balance of his life in a modern day penal colony in Louisiana, known commonly as Angola. He was actually innocent, but truthful convictions are not the aim of the weaponized legal system constructed by the White Supremacist who designed the State’s penal code in the Jim Crow era.
The obvious questions are (1) How did the State of Louisiana come to lead the entire world in per capita incarceration of her citizens? and (2) why are over 80 percent of her prisoners of African descent?
Antebellum scholars and academicians debate the actual genesis of the Jim Crow system of racial segregation practiced in the Southern United States. However, almost all of them agree that the advent of the Black Codes immediately following the Civil War represented the definite legal codification of institutional discrimination based solely on race. According to the legislators who crafted Louisiana’s Constitution these laws were specifically designed to subjugate the African American population and perpetuate White Supremacy into infinitum.
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