• eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Now we’re just arguing semantics. I’m arguing that the 13th amendment abolished racial slavery in the way we think of racial slavery, like generic, history class, cotton field slavery that supported the south’s economy before the civil war. You’re arguing that the powers that be essentially found a way to continue slavery under a new guise. That has a lot of merit, its just not what I was talking about in my earlier comments.

    Secondly, thanks for proving my point. Look at who the largest demographic is on that chart you posted

    Inb4 “but compare the percentage incarcerated to the percentage in the population”

    Direct quote from the article: “58.70% of the prison population is white, which includes Hispanic Americans.”

    Except that most people consider Hispanic ethnically different from your run-of-the-mill white people, and most leftist talk a lot about racial disparity towards Hispanics as being similar to racial disparity against blacks. These are pretty poor statistics to support your argument

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      You’re arguing semantics. If the US state simply found a work-around to continue racial slavery, then they are still doing racial slavery. Full stop.

      I don’t get your point on Hispanic Americans being included in that demographic as proving your point. If we consider Hispanics a racial minority, which they are, then these numbers only give further merit to the fact that racial slavery is still practiced in Amerikkka.

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        1 year ago

        The simple answer to that is don’t go to prison. Be a law-abiding citizen, you won’t become a slave in the prison system. Something certain demographics can’t seem to wrap their minds around