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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP (www.motherjones.com)

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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 213 points 9 months ago

When the reporter persisted, Decker explained that her father—a preacher born around 1933, according to the Courier Journal, or 68 years after slavery was outlawed—was “born into poverty” and worked for free with his family on the property they lived on. (It’s unclear whether the adults were paid, though the Courier Journal notes that it sounds more like “Decker’s father was forced by his parents to do chores” and that the family were tenant farmers.)

“My dad had to do chores when he was growing up 😭😭” - KY State Rep. Jennifer Decker

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a share cropper and victim of wage slave capitalism.

Dummy

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 53 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the run-of-the-mill child labour you see across the US (I consistently did this for my dad till probably about 17).

Not to forget the other type, which is migrant children working in factories illegally.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I'd also like to add that slavery was never outlawed in the US, and is still used to this day.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 4 points 9 months ago

It was...

...EXCEPT...

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

When the exception makes the rule lol.

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