• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In the US, we don’t call them slaves. We call them prisoners. That’s how we stay off the index.

    Never mind that we intentionally arrest specific racial groups more than others, and that the laws are such that you can be arrested for almost anything, including things like “looking suspicious while driving and then resisting arrest.”

    Slavery never left America. We just decided to start including some poor white people too.