I was not aware of all you wrote. I guess thanks for picking up the ball when I dropped it. As an eastern European, for whom high school had almost nothing to

I was not aware of all you wrote. I guess thanks for picking up the ball when I dropped it. As an eastern European, for whom high school had almost nothing to say about American history (other than WWII) and afterwards I originally learned the usually parroted variant only to later correct the knowledge I had, I am baffled again and again every time when learning new things about the putrid fractal that is slavery in the US. I was never even that curious in the first place. I did hear about the prison industrial complex but I had no idea about the "Angola" and how close this gets to slavery called by a different name. Reading about it now. I believed that while for profit prisons were inhuman, prisoners were not used for forced labor. I always kinda assumed that meant that prisons received so much money from the state they even made a profit. That major western brands make use of it feels nauseating. I believed this was stuff we were criticizing China for.