Y’all really ain’t ready for the slavery in the US agriculture sector conversation. It’s really bad, and this ICE shit is just acceleration
But those are my Mexicans
Or why they have decimated public education in black communities.
And just in general. Black communities were definitely hit hardest and first, but the damage isn’t solely contained there.
The Right essentially decided to destroy public education in response to desegregation.
The district I worked for was excellent in the 50’s and 60’s. Now, the only high school that isn’t a failure is the application school all the white kids get into.
3/5ths…
holy shit yikes
If this was fiction I’d be complaining about how on-the-nose it was.
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain 3/5ths to me like I’m 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin_(disambiguation)
I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn’t interestin They seemed to only glorify the europeans Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being
The constitution makes slavery legal for prisoners
Says so right there literally just read the 13th amendment
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn’t get rid of slavery.
The amendment to abolish slavery enshrines it in the Constitution
Yeah lmao this is the amendment making slavery illegal….exceptaspunishmentforacrime
Tho I guess in fairness involuntary labor for prisoners is not really like slavery of innocent people but that’s why we have a corrupt criminal justice system to make up the difference 😃
Black americans have the highest rate of incarceration for this exact reason. Racist cops, lawyers, and judges get to lock up black people and make them slaves.
Slavery is illegal except for prisoners. Forcing prisoners to work is perfectly constitutional.
The bill of rights is wrong and must be admended. Closing this loop hole will kill the for profit prison industrial complex.
And how is that different from slavery?
They get a whole 3/5 of their wages!
It isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
Could also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
Slavery never went away. It’s just been rebranded, repackaged and sanitized.
Not American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?
the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
