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

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(07-19-2022, 01:50 PM)hollodero Wrote: What would be an example of such a law initially designed to put freed slaves in place that is still in effect today?

The remaining of the overt Black Code laws were shot down by SCOTUS in 1972. There are scholars that contend that things such as the sentencing disparities seen for crack and powder cocaine, as SSF mentioned, are modern day continuities of this. There is also evidence from research that shows there are sentencing disparities in most criminal cases where black defendants are sentenced more severely than white defendants, or defendants of other races as well.

Truthfully, though, we could rid ourselves of all of these policies and eliminate any subjectivity in sentencing and the statistics that SSF is talking about wouldn't change much. We have seen a century of this in the US. The black communities in this country have not been given the opportunity to gain intergenerational wealth, to exercise political power. When they did, they were met with violence like the destruction of Black Wall Street. The pressures from the systems in place helped shape the culture that we see now. It created the culture that spawned the gangs we see in inner cities. It has become a perpetual motion machine.