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1StrongBlackMan

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2. You've got it ...

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Fri May 4, 2012, 11:00 AM

May 2012

And the model was created just over 200 years ago, when African-American Freemen were "arrested" for such crimes as "vagancy" and "public disorder" (while in their homes), and "rented" out to the local plantation owner.

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