A lot of good points made in this video, including a Democrat choosing to do as Republicans have long done and change party in an attempt to win a primary, and thus presumably the general election. In this instance, due to heavy gerrymandering by the Republican-led state legislature (North Carolina).
"...the collective populace is kind of toddler-level about risks in their electoral choices" and deliberate lack thereof
Do you want to know more about Parchman Farm, a notorious prison in Mississippi, known for its brutality. During the Civil Rights Era, protestors were often detained there and put in close proxmity to hardened criminals in order to scare and intimidate them #ParchmanFarm #WorseThanSlavery #ConvictLease #SlaveryByAnotherName #CivilRightsProtestors
#Slavery was never abolished in the #US, it was only modified, as explicitly defined in the #13thAmendment.
The #PrisonIndustrialComplex is literally #SlaveryByAnotherName.
Where are the international sanctions on the #UnitedStates?
And people are still confused as to how we can be allies with brutally repressive, and #authoritarian regimes. Like attracts like.
From: @mostaurelius
https://mas.to/@mostaurelius/112860186488035991
It's still a slave plantation... Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South https://apnews.com/article/prisons-labor-lawsuit-investigation-b41d72f87dc22e0a351a1a8f5345b9bc #news #USnews #Louisiana #prison #PrisonReform #justice #law #labor #WorkersRights
Closing out #blackhistorymonth I want to highlight the book #SlaverybyAnotherName by #DouglasBlackmon. This book was transformative to my outlook on slavery, and contributed to my passion for convict leasing and mass incarceration.
In this book, Blackmon exposes the forgotten history of re-enslavement that took place after 1865. If you read anything in 2024, read this.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/14301/slavery-by-another-name-by-douglas-a-blackmon/
#history #slavery #neoslavery #convictleasing #books #reading
@bobbelcher The article opens with a glaring error, "...a former Southern slave plantation..."
#Angola #prison is a *current* #slave #plantation, and has always been so, as defined by the #13thAmendment.
The form of #slavery has been altered, but not the fact, and #Louisiana is probably the most openly slave state in the #US, along with #Alabama and #Mississippi.
The article does a great job of explaining this national shame, and calling it what it is: #SlaveryByAnotherName.
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and are sometimes paid pennies an hour or nothing at all. They also are excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. And it can be almost impossible for them to sue.
@uspolitics The #ManWithNoEyes approves.
#The1619Project episode 4 explodes the myth of #capitalism in the #US.
Founded here and in #Europe on #slavery (from where do you think most of the wealth in your precious period pieces derived?), capitalism in the U.S. retains much of the same characteristics as 200 years ago.
The author of #SlaveryByAnotherName (book and #PBS show) helps explain in the context of #Amazon in #Bessemer #Alabama.
The #corporate fight against #unions is used to highlight the ills of our brutal society.
Ricardo Harvin
Historianspeaks
The Tired Historian 📚