06-23-2020, 12:08 PM
(06-23-2020, 12:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What possible statistic proves that putting people in jail for selling crack is the same as buying and selling humans like animals under chattel slavery? How many prisoners have their children sold to the highest bidder? How many thousands of prisoners are lynched or beaten to death each year? How many prisoners are not allowed to learn to read or ever own any property in their lives?
Look, I understand you love your strawman arguments. I get it. But simmer down. Forcing incarcerated individuals to carry out labor is slavery. Full stop. Slavery still exists in modern society and it is disproportionately the black community that is forced into it. This can be explained, at least in part, by systemic oppression in the criminal justice system that was intentionally designed to target their community.
"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
