Historical Framework by https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q Picking Cotton by Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, and Erin Torneo en-us 2018-11-28 21:57:54 UTC 2025-11-14 02:32:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png 1984-200 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309090977 Book was published in 2009.]]> 2018-11-28 23:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309090977 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091102 In the 1980’s and 1990’s the turmoil between the African American community and law enforcement was continuing to build as seen in…]]> 2018-11-28 23:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091102 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091211 ·      1980 Miami riots.
·      The torture of James Cody by Chicago Police in 1983.
·      The passing of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that created the 100-1 crack/powered cocaine disparity.
·      1987 Supreme Court death penalty case of Warren McCleskey being upheld despite racial bias. 
·      1992 Los Angeles riots provoked by the 1991 beating of Rodney King by LAPD Police.
·      The 1995 murder of an African American unarmed motorist by Pennsylvania Police.
·      The killing of Amadou Diallo who was shot 41 times by NYPD in 1999.
]]> 2018-11-28 23:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091211 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091336 And then of course we are all aware of the continuation of this behavior beyond 2006.
Not only were their problems with law enforcement like the police and within the justice system, but also socially and politically…
]]> 2018-11-28 23:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091336 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091610 ·      Michael Donald being lynched in Alabama in 1981
·      African American man, Michael Griffith, hit and killed by a car while fleeing a white mob in New York in 1986.
·      The murder of Yusef Hawkins by a white mob in New York in 1989.
·      The 1995 myth of the “Super-Predator.”
·      The 2009 Klansmen burning a cross in an African American neighborhood in Alabama.
·      Couple denied marriage license in Louisiana in 2009.
]]> 2018-11-28 23:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091610 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091828 With turmoil like this stirring and bubbling inside of America during this span of time, it is no surprise to me that Ronald Cotton was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit due in part to institutional racism, and racist beliefs in society.]]> 2018-11-28 23:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309091828 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309092420 2018-11-28 23:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309092420 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309092666 2018-11-28 23:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309092666 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309094294 2018-11-29 00:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309094294 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309424623 “Oh really?” said Sully. He leaned in real close to me, his nose bent like he smelled shit. He had a real cocky attitude. “What about the time you served in juvie for breaking and entering with intent to rape?” he said, throwing some paper at me. “She was a little white girl, too.”]]> 2018-11-29 17:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309424623 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309426192 This cop Sully, though, he had already decided I was guilty. I’ll never forget him saying, “Saw your girlfriend earlier. You think you’re Mr. Big Shot, going around town screwing white women, don’t you? We got your ass.”]]> 2018-11-29 17:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309426192 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309426706 Like a lot of people in town he didn’t like the fact that I had dated white girls. Sometimes walking around, you could feel the racism like a pilot light always on in the back of some people’s minds, flickering, and just waiting to get turned up.]]> 2018-11-29 17:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309426706 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309428044 2018-11-29 17:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309428044 oliviakehring https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309452611 2018-11-29 18:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviakehring/uqc44tuubt1q/wish/309452611