Dozens of bodies exhumed in Texas likely those of black inmates forced to work on plantations

[GrouchoTex]

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 It's all been ground down to molasses
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 You should've been on the river in nineteen and ten
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 They were drivin' the women just like they drove the men
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 Go down Old Hannah, don't you rise no more
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 Don't you rise up 'til Judgment Day's for sure
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 It's all been ground down to molasses
 Oh, ooh, ooh

 Captain, don't you do me like you done poor old Shine
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 Well ya drove that bully 'til he went stone blind
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 Wake up on a lifetime, hold up your own head
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 Well, you may get a pardon and then you might drop dead
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

 Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
 It's all been ground down to molasses
 Ooh, ooh, ooh

[LadyLiberty]

I have seen, within the past year, guys in orange jumpsuits working under supervision outside of the Fort Bend County jail.  They were digging a trench, perhaps to get to a leaking pipe or some other buried thing that needed to be fixed.

I wonder how they determined that they were buried starting in 1878:  From 1869 to 1874, the sheriff of Fort Bend County was Walter Moses Burton, born a slave in North Carolina. To go from being a slave to the first African American sheriff in the US in four short years (CW 1861 - 1865) is quite a story.  He went on to serve several terms in the Texas Senate.

[musiclady]

Yes I did.  Why ask?

Because your questions indicate a certain ignorance, that’s all.

As for my questioning your questions because I’m racist, that’s just dumb.

[truth_seeker]

Low security risk inmates from Orange County Jail were routinely used for work assignments at State Beaches, until recently.

I'm fairly certain low security inmates, get a chance to work on firefighting assignments. For example a fire is burning near Yosemite Nt. Park, and an article said there were 2700 firefighter, there.

Mostly low skilled, but very hard and dangerous work.

I think they earn credits for doing such work. Great flick, starring Josh Brolin about the guys killed near Prescot AZ.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Because your questions indicate a certain ignorance, that’s all.

As for my questioning your questions because I’m racist, that’s just dumb.

Ignorant of what exactly?

And racism jumps out by those who MUST place a racial component in all news.  The fact that there were any but blacks there is immaterial to some apparently as racial characteristics of all news must be maintained.