3/5ths…
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain 3/5ths to me like I’m 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin_(disambiguation)
I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn’t interestin They seemed to only glorify the europeans Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being
holy shit yikes
If this was fiction I’d be complaining about how on-the-nose it was.
I find myself saying words to this effect more and more, and more and more lately
Slavery never went away. It’s just been rebranded, repackaged and sanitized.
Not American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?
the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
and fugitive slave patrols became police
Y’all really ain’t ready for the slavery in the US agriculture sector conversation. It’s really bad, and this ICE shit is just acceleration
Or why they have decimated public education in black communities.
And just in general. Black communities were definitely hit hardest and first, but the damage isn’t solely contained there.
The Right essentially decided to destroy public education in response to desegregation.
The district I worked for was excellent in the 50’s and 60’s. Now, the only high school that isn’t a failure is the application school all the white kids get into.
But those are my Mexicans
The constitution makes slavery legal for prisoners
Says so right there literally just read the 13th amendment
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn’t get rid of slavery.
The amendment to abolish slavery enshrines it in the Constitution
Yeah lmao this is the amendment making slavery illegal….exceptaspunishmentforacrime
Tho I guess in fairness involuntary labor for prisoners is not really like slavery of innocent people but that’s why we have a corrupt criminal justice system to make up the difference 😃
Black americans have the highest rate of incarceration for this exact reason. Racist cops, lawyers, and judges get to lock up black people and make them slaves.
Slavery is illegal except for prisoners. Forcing prisoners to work is perfectly constitutional.
The bill of rights is wrong and must be admended. Closing this loop hole will kill the for profit prison industrial complex.
Offered to non violent misdemeanor offenders… First person has 15 year sentence…
Literally slavery, what a 3rd world country
Normalize refusal to do business at places who use prison labor.
Normalize burning those places to the fucking ground.
Slavery under the 13th amendment has been quietly accepted for over a century. Maybe normality itself is to blame.
That doesn’t mean we have to keep accepting it.
Driving Uber, I hear so many stories like this. For example, I never knew you paid for this “privilege,” and apparently you PAY TO BE ON PROBATION!? Among so much other insane bullshit.
when i was in my early 20’s i had a friend who was on house-arrest. She unknowingly convinced me that if i ever found myself in her situation just to do the time instead of aiming for a house arrest plea-deal for similar reasons.
Lol I paid $5000 for a plea deal, along every step of the way I’ve confirmed with my lawyer and judge that I can just pay my way out
Future of the United States?
Future what? It’s literally happening in the US right now.
Present of the United States.
That is slavery.
Hopefully the decent folk in Alabama-- wherever they hide-- boycott the fuck outta those places.
Here’s a reminder that the 13th amendment didn’t abolish slavery. It simply added the “they must be a criminal before you can enslave them” qualifier…
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
Emphasis mine. Why do you think the model for the modern police force started as slave catchers, and then pivoted hard towards “law enforcement” after the civil war? The US already had law enforcers. They were called sheriffs (county), troopers (state), and marshals (federal). The individual cities and towns didn’t have their own independent police forces until after the civil war… Instead, the county sheriff would deputize people to enforce laws in the individual cities on the sheriff’s behalf. And those brand new city-level police forces were manned by, you guessed it, former slave catchers. And they never really stopped catching slaves. They just changed what they called it.
The US thrives on slavery, even today, with private prisons as the modern slave owners.
The 13th Amendment allows for forced labor in prisons. This is how Trump and the GOP will reinstitute slavery in the USA.
According to the AP article it isn’t forced per say, but it is highly leveraged onto inmates using early release/parole as a carrot.
Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry.
I would say threatening someone with more prison time absolutely counts as “forced”.
It’s been a feature of the US prison system since the end of Reconstruction. This isn’t something Trump invented.
Bright Blue California rejected a measure to ban prison slavery just a year ago.
And how is that different from slavery?
It isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
Could also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
also to put them in perpetually low wage jobs, where they cant complain, much like they do with Immigrants. and to live them socioeconomically disadvantaged for generations with no way to lift them out of.
They get a whole 3/5 of their wages!
