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Slavery was never really abolished, it's still allowed as punishment for a crime. The bias of police and the criminal justice system against people of certain r
by minikites 5y ago
Slavery was never really abolished, it's still allowed as punishment for a crime. The bias of police and the criminal justice system against people of certain races takes on a new meaning in this light.
- pyuser583 5y agoNo … slavery is/was the reduction of humans to commodities. Even a convicted prisoner can’t be sold. There’s an exception in the 13th for convicts, but the results are very different from chattel slavery.
- fidesomnes 5y agoI see you live in a world of magical thinking. When was the last time you let anyone (in your mind) wrongly convicted of crimes into your home? I will hazard a guess "none at all" and the last black people you let into your home came in through the television.