What did the “abolition” of slavery change in tuscaloosa, alabama and the surrounding area? Not much. At least 8 Black people were lynched in tuscaloosa county from 1884 to 1933.
https://eji.org/news/eji-dedicates-marker-for-lynching-victims-in-tuscaloosa-alabama/
https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Memory/s/alabamamemoryproject/item/450
What did the “end” of segregation laws change since then? Not much. In the last 13 years, there have been at least 11 people reported killed by police in tuscaloosa county. (This isn’t even counting people who died in jail.) At least 8 of them were Black. The most recent killing happened last month, north of the river. And there has been a conspiracy of media silence, government silence, since it was initially reported.
https://ibb.co/album/dWzgBr
A Black person who was unhoused shot back at a cop in self defense in 2019. They were just sentenced to life in prison. The city renamed a street to celebrate the dead cop. In 2023, TPD beat the shit out of a Black person and their parent for “Driving While Black” and “Defending Your Family While Black”. How are these incidents affecting police standing? TPD just got an award for “Excellence in Mental Health”.
https://patch.com/alabama/tuscaloosa/man-accused-killing-tuscaloosa-police-officer-takes-stand-day-four-capital-murder
https://www.wbrc.com/2026/02/12/tuscaloosa-man-sues-sheriff-deputies-over-2023-traffic-stop-he-says-turned-violent/
https://imginn.com/p/C1GvMfMMDJP/
https://imginn.com/p/C1G2roOuhx5/
https://patch.com/alabama/tuscaloosa/tuscaloosa-police-department-honored-expanding-mental-health-crisis-response
Anthony Farley wrote: “The so-called Civil Rights Movement has taken us from white-over-black to white-over-black to white-over-black.” In 2020 there were “Black Lives Matter” marches in tuscaloosa. What are the results? The city is overflowing with cameras in public spaces. TPD pickups and SUVs are constantly harassing people in Black neighborhoods. Everything is segregated and highly unequal, the downtown and university of alabama areas are overrun with People of Paleness enjoying their wealth. If you are unhoused you are harassed into hiding or jail or “given” a one way ticket out of the city.
These facts are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg…there is so much more to the relentless, everyday oppression of Black people in tuscaloosa, alabama, united slaveholders of so-called “america”
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