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The United States never abolished slavery and have never stopped using it.
13th amendment makes it pretty clear.
IT HAS THE WORD "EXCEPT" IN IT.
I still remember learning this for the first time. Truly fucked up. I just can't get over it.
Where the fuck has the Associated Press been? That's like US's worst-kept secret. Like there's entire movies about all that
Works as designed
Lookin at you, Idaho potatoes! It didn't click for me for an embarrassing amount of time why I rarely saw potato fields despite living all over Idaho. They keep them all by the prisons, and tuck the prisons out of sight
Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.
Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven't increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.
It's literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.
Slavery never went away. It just became more profitable.
This is why we don’t addreACEs, multigenerational trauma and rehabilitation, homelessness, conditions of despair. We need to get loud about it and stay loud.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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