06-22-2020, 04:27 PM
(06-22-2020, 04:19 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Claiming that punishing criminals is the same as chattel slavery is bullshit and that type of talk hurts blacks more than it helpes. Plus it is a huge insult to innocent people who lived under chattel slavery.
I will just comment on this and leave it here. I'd like you to have that conversation with the scholars talking about this issue.
"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