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Slavery still exists in the USA today with mass incarceration. The 13th Amendment, as enacted, reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a pun
by lloydde 8y ago
Slavery still exists in the USA today with mass incarceration. The 13th Amendment, as enacted, reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
- psergeant 8y agoAh, this seems like comparatively a huge reach to me, and I think it does a massive disservice to compare the enslavement of Black Americans to penal servitude, even given the outsized representation of African Americans in the US penal system.
- mcfunk 8y agoI would recommend reading The New Jim Crow or watching 13th to better understand the argument and comparison being made.
- travmatt 8y agoI think your argument pretty much ignores a major portion of American history post civil war through at least the 1960’s.
- papaf 8y agoIt's the system as it was designed to be. I am surprised that you haven't heard about the prison loophole before. It even gets a powerful scene in the film 'Gone with the Wind'.