Arizona communities would 'collapse' without cheap prison labor, Corrections director

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(07-19-2022, 02:18 PM)hollodero Wrote: I fully get that in comparison to white folks. But isn't that, at least to some extent, also the case for other ethnicities? Many Asians came as railroad workers and the like, not the basis to build intergenerational wealth, many hispanics came as immigrants and had to get by without inherited wealth... how is that factor so particularly effecting black people and the other groups (at least when serving as explanation for incarceration rates) not as much?

Asian and Hispanic immigrants did not arrive here as chattel. Were they low-wage laborers? Yes. Were they seen as less-than by the racist thoughts of the day? Also yes. However, they were not deprived of the ability to accumulate wealth and pass it along to their descendants in the same way that our black communities were. They were not targeted by laws to the same extent that our black communities were.

This isn't me saying it didn't happen; it absolutely did. However, they were never targeted to the same degree and at the same consistency as the African American population.