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Jerry Hawkins

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Nov 19 • 12 tweets • 6 min read

Gerald Horne - The Counter Revolution Of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism #1836Syllabus

Randolph Campbell - The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays #1836Syllabus

Jason A. Gillmer - Slavery and Freedom in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871 #1836Syllabus

Fred L. McGhee - The Black Crop: Slavery and Slave Trading in Nineteenth Century Texas #1836Syllabus

James C. Kearney - Nassau Plantation: The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation #1836Syllabus

Alice L Baumgartner - South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War #1836Syllabus

Neil Foley - The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture #1836Syllabus

Julie P. Baker & T. Lindsay Baker - Till Freedom Cried Out Memories of Texas Slave Life (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) #1836Syllabus

Paul Barba - Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies) #1836Syllabus

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson & Jason Stanford - Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth #1836Syllabus

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Jerry Hawkins

@JerryLEADS

Jun 2, 2020

I was asked to write this and I was emotional and angry. Tired, really. But I wanted to share my thought process when writing these 750+ words about the proximity of premature death/racism in Dallas and in this country. THREAD. dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…

I’m an artist & MC. I always think about ideas in song lyrics. No other song title conveys proximity to premature death better than 2Pac’s “Death Around The Corner”(especially since his best work, ME AGAINST THE WORLD, released when he was in prison):

I decided to start with Tupac’s words because, in his lyrics, he located how CLOSE death was in his lived experience. Racism has a way of making that easy for you. He understood a radical political framework, predicted his premature death in this country and was killed at 25.