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I'd like to just point out that you start finger pointing when the cause is probably much more complex than hey they did it down there and has nothing to do wit
by soheil 4y ago
I'd like to just point out that you start finger pointing when the cause is probably much more complex than hey they did it down there and has nothing to do with us civilized folks up here. You live here and slavery hasn't been a thing for 160 years and yet this is still the state of the country's prisons.
- acdha 4y agoIt sounds like you’re reading something into that which I didn’t intend. My point was simply that the north wasn’t innocent and since we never fully dealt with discrimination it’s unsurprising that the problems were reduced but not fully resolved.
- soheil 4y agoHow did this become an issue with discrimination? My point is that the legacy of slavery could be a contributing factor, but if you keep dueling on that you miss many other insane factors that are very much at play at this very moment. The state of prisons in the US is abhorrent and not what one would expect from a modern democratic nation, which coincidentally also claims to be the champion of freedom.
- acdha 4y agoSee my original comment: the 13th amendment allows involuntary servitude as a legal penalty. The problem with that is when the entire legal system has a particular bias, it's really easy to start rounding up low-status people for dubious or minor offenses when a fellow high-status peer needs cheap labor.