06-22-2020, 03:42 PM
(06-22-2020, 03:37 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I am not ignoring that fact at all.
You are the one who is ignoring the fact that that the "Black Codes" were overturned or rerealed long ago. You won't find a single black person in the south trapped in a forced labor camp due to charges of "vagrancy".
Yes, those specific laws were. Only to be replaced with laws like those against drug use that have harsher punishments for those drugs perceived as being use predominantly by black people. There are tons of examples of this sort of thing that show how this is a perpetual issue going on.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
