Modern Slavery and the War on Drugs

in #slavery8 years ago (edited)

Most people take what they are told in school and by the television at face value and just accept it without question and especially without reading. We have been told that slavery was abolished and that the Civil War was a war to end slavery. It is all nonsense. Racial Slavery never ended and the 13th Amendment did not and does not ban slavery, it moves it from the open fields of the plantations to the walled off prisons where we don't have to face it. Here is what it says:
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Immediately after the war was over many poor illiterate newly “freed” slaves in the South were rounded up un trumped up charges like petty theft or trespassing and taken to prison where they were forced to pick the same cotton fields they just got freed from, they were forced to build roads and to do factory style work inside the prisons. Where under the old style of slavery they could go home and sleep in the same house with their wife and children at night, they were now entombed while still alive inside a gray dreary prison. It didn’t take long for the North to start rounding them up as well, after all slave labor is a valuable commodity.
The origins of what we call Police in modern culture began in the 1820s during the industrial revolution. People began working in factories and the availability of gas lamps created shift work. Wages were terrible and hours were long. This led to labor unions being born. The wealthy began hiring thugs and spies to break up these unions with both violence ant intelligence gathering these first “cops” were paid from private funds and were not sanctioned by any government. Eventually the wealthy factory and plantation owners used their money to get laws put in place to get these thugs paid out of taxing the poor. In the South the cops stated as slave catches and paid thugs used to put down slave revolts. Now you know why police are traditionally racists.
In the 1920s the States individually, and the United States as a whole began making drug laws that targeted minorities but especially Blacks. Laws against substances like cocaine and marijuana were announced publically as a way to keep black men from going crazy and raping any white woman they saw. We all know that is not what drugs do, but it sold newspapers and got laws passed. To this day most people serving a prison slave labor sentence are there for drug offenses, and they are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. They are forced to work, cannot go home, cannot call in sick.
Ronald Reagan legalized private prisons right after he became president. This was done by executive order, no voting by us or by congress. It just so happens some of his right wing racist wealthy friends had already constructed prisons it is like they knew they would become legal ahead of time. At the same time, he and his worthless wife Nancy announced a renewed war on drugs. The prisons were and still are overfilled and profits are great for the slavers who run prisons. They own the only store the slaves can shop in, and the states pay the private prisons $50 to $100 per day per inmate.
America has the highest prison population in the world both in raw numbers and per capita. We have more people locked up than China, North Korea, and Iran combined we have them there for slave labor and our politicians go on TV and badmouth those countries for human rights violations. Please turn of the TV and read.

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