> The US penal system is explicitly a continuation of the former slave system. Penal labor is not exclusive to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labo

> The US penal system is explicitly a continuation of the former slave system. Penal labor is not exclusive to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour > It isn't coincidental that so many prisons were built on former plantation property, or that the incarceration rate of black men is so high. 32% of prisoners are Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... 56% of homicide perpetrators are Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Homicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S... Using homicide as indicator of general criminality because it's hard to fudge the numbers or inflate them with over-policing. Granted the correspondence is surely not perfect, but given such a parsimonious explanation, we'd need strong justification to reach for conspiratorial alternatives.