In Walter Mosley's second chapter of Workin On The Chain, he continues on by describing how we as citizens are locked in a state of conditioning. A monotonous routine of "work schedules, production lines, codes of behavior, and the array for personal advancement"(Mosley, 19). Many of these things that restrictively border our potential as human beings. These subliminal restrictions are the force that places limits on our awarness, understanding, and our ability to question. These are our chains.

Black history and the African-American experience is consequential to American history because freedom has yet to come in full circle. Centuries of social blunder consisted of segregation, lynchings, murders driven by rascism, and laws established to, what Mosley proclaims were "reintroducing chains into the lives of the freed slave"(Mosley, 40). The undeniable history of institutionalized slavery was the building blocks.The capital implemented to construct America. The bloodstains are indelible on the star spangled banner.