(September 17, 2015 at 12:51 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: 4. Prison Industrial Complex. When Minorities are taken out of their neighborhoods and put in prisons in White neighborhoods, the Minority neighborhood is not allowed to count the incarcerated individual in the census as a resident, but the White neighborhood is. This means the White neighborhood gets to use the body of this politically dead person for congressional representation and government funding.
Quite so. Another "must read" author, if you have not yet done so, is James W. Loewen, whose Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important books I have ever read (he's a history professor, and he examines the six main high school textbooks for the ways in which they whitewash what actually happened in American history, by comparing what the books say to what the primary literature says, mainly on subjects of our genocide of the Native Americans and our treatment of African Americans throughout our history).
But in this case, your subject is something he talks about in Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and as horrifying as our "sundown town" history (which continues, as he documents) was to read about, it made my skin crawl (I was in a prison when I read it) to learn that the rural counties in which my prisons were always located could count the minority population in the prison as part of their census, while paying nothing to them, for purposes of federal funding and other programs, even for avoiding being penalized for being racial exclusion zones.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
