Our prison system is legalized slavery (Reply #50)

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 08:38 PM

50. Our prison system is legalized slavery

The police just feed the system. Corrupt judges and profiteering politicians love our for profit prisons that makes its money off the backs of the incarcerated. Our crime rate keeps going down but our prison population keeps increasing.

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61 replies	Author	Time	Post
I never learned about this in American History class. [View all]	Heartstrings	Jun 2020	OP
That was the subject of the documentary "13th"	Caliman73	Jun 2020	#1
Thank you!	Heartstrings	Jun 2020	#2
I wish everyone	KT2000	Jun 2020	#12
Black men in prisons aren't used for forced labor now, but they are making men rich from	BComplex	Jun 2020	#39
Actually, they are	StarfishSaver	Jun 2020	#46
Prisoners are still used to do public work, like picking up trash on public	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#59
Sad post but one every single white person in the US needs to read.	PatrickforO	Jun 2020	#3
No they didn't!	Heartstrings	Jun 2020	#4
Well, there was a hell of a lot that was never taught in schools...	Moostache	Jun 2020	#17
Amen, Moostache. Amen.	BComplex	Jun 2020	#40
EXcept I learned it in college	obamanut2012	Jun 2020	#27
Kick for maximum exposure. Thanks for posting. nt	oasis	Jun 2020	#5
My pleasure....	Heartstrings	Jun 2020	#6
K&R	Solly Mack	Jun 2020	#7
Thank you, so much. We SHOULD have been taught. I have already passed it on to a friend. Thanks. n/t	Judi Lynn	Jun 2020	#8
And a number of years ago I remember hearing about how the symbols on contemporary police	fierywoman	Jun 2020	#9
There's more . . . . . .	no_hypocrisy	Jun 2020	#10
Thanks for posting!	PandoraAwakened	Jun 2020	#11
This message was self-deleted by its author	pecosbob	Jun 2020	#15
Mandatory minimum sentencing...mainly a relic of the recent past, but insidious in its impact...	Moostache	Jun 2020	#18
Thanks!	PandoraAwakened	Jun 2020	#53
Yes, the entire war on drugs.	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#60
If only there were an esteemed psychiatrist someone could ask. N/T	lapucelle	Jun 2020	#43
...	sheshe2	Jun 2020	#44
...	lapucelle	Jun 2020	#45
Yup.	sheshe2	Jun 2020	#49
This message was self-deleted by its author	PandoraAwakened	Jun 2020	#55
I feel stupid	MH1	Jun 2020	#56
Haaaaa!	NurseJackie	Jun 2020	#52
Post removed	Post removed	Jun 2020	#54
A couple of friends of mine are (although they might not call themselves "esteemed")....	George II	Jun 2020	#57
Hell, our schools barely talk about slavery, let alone peonage. nt	SunSeeker	Jun 2020	#13
And the ones that do teach about slavery say how wonderful it was	Ilsa	Jun 2020	#42
Neither did I...where I did learn about it was in...	pecosbob	Jun 2020	#14
+1	2naSalit	Jun 2020	#33
This also shows one of the reasons why police got in the habit of watching	Sloumeau	Jun 2020	#16
Look no further than Dylan Roof and Walter Scott as a prime example...	Moostache	Jun 2020	#19
White people could make more money, not "society". It is a poor utilization of talent & ability	Bernardo de La Paz	Jun 2020	#24
Bingo!!!!!!	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#61
K&R for exposure!!!!	diva77	Jun 2020	#20
"Slavery by Another Name" by Douglas Blackmon tells the story. Cities like Atlanta and....	EarnestPutz	Jun 2020	#21
he won a Pulitzer for it too.	TeamPooka	Jun 2020	#22
It was only a few yrs ago that I learned slaves built the WH. White owners rented them to govt	bobbieinok	Jun 2020	#23
That book was heartbreaking.	sheshe2	Jun 2020	#47
There is an excellent, Pulitzer Prize -winning book on this topic	Tanuki	Jun 2020	#25
K&R n/t	Kitchari	Jun 2020	#26
Shit. That's probably where the pattern began of targeting black people within the limits of the law	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2020	#28
And these same laws have been used to target protesters who protest for LIBERAL causes,	BComplex	Jun 2020	#41
K&R	Solomon	Jun 2020	#29
That system was slavery by another name.	BSdetect	Jun 2020	#30
This should also underscore the need to abolish PRIVATE prisons!	lastlib	Jun 2020	#31
Only 8 percent of incarcerated people are held in private prisons.	WhiskeyGrinder	Jun 2020	#32
The prison system is built on this framework. It's not reformable.	WhiskeyGrinder	Jun 2020	#34
Still	JustGene	Jun 2020	#35
Thanks for this important post.	panader0	Jun 2020	#36
I had no idea how loaded the word "peon" is.	blaze	Jun 2020	#37
This is, of course, the origin of the "blacks are criminals" meme	struggle4progress	Jun 2020	#38
Lately I am learning a lot about what I didn't learn in History class,	crickets	Jun 2020	#48
You're welcome!	Heartstrings	Jun 2020	#51
Our prison system is legalized slavery	Generic Brad	Jun 2020	#50
The history of how Whites as a singular group treated Blacks in America is	Blue_true	Jun 2020	#58

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