Slavery: The Original Friday the 13th

Maybe that’s why black people die so gruesomely in horror movies.

“Horror” by patosincharco is marked with CC PDM 1.0, Image by Redleaf_Lodi from Pixabay Adapted and designed by Author

One summer I worked at a camp for low-income children from New York City. Most were kids of color. We were lining up to play baseball after lunch. A camper turned to another and said,

“It looks like slaves going off into the field.”