Kings Don’t Belong in Cages
By b. Robert Moore
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archival print with hand-touched elements, unique 1/1 | includes dark brown frame
Dear Mama, they sentenced me to death / today’s my final day, I’m counting every breath / I’m bitter cause I’m dying, so much I haven’t seen / I know you never dreamed, your baby would be dead at 16. – Tupac (16 on Death Row / 1992)
Black Americans are incarcerated at 5 times the rate of White Americans. Over 12 million Africans brought to America through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and millions born on soil.
Knowing our history, slavery, imprisonment, and free labor is at the foundation of American history. This systemic free labor is inner connected between private prisons, government sector (including police), labor, health (hospitals/modern medicine), food/nutrition, education and much more.
This is why I referenced the Burger King “crown.” It’s nostalgic of age, but also calls attention to our journey as Black Americans and our coming of age. How these systems are set up to herd us like cattle into these free labor institutions. Who benefits from our demise, our free labor, our poor health and ultimately our demise?
Kings Don’t Belong In Cages … – b. Robert Moore
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| Dimensions | 30 × 24 in |
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