Intro - Breland

1619, the White Lion takes the first group of Black slaves to a colony in

Virginia

Over the next two hundred fifty years, twelve million Africans were captured

and transported into the Western world

Through Civil War, reconstruction, Jim Crowe and his Civil Rights Movement

The stench of racism prevail in America’s institutions still

Through systemic discrimination, legislation and violence

This year’s no different

(In this place called Tobacco Road)