RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
August 28, 2019 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2019 at 9:34 pm by Rev. Rye.)
I found out that not only is the mass incarceration epidemic in the US comparable to slavery, but also this:
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This photo was taken in 1997 at the Ferguson Unit, a prison in Madison County, Texas. And before the Civil War, it was a cotton plantation. And it still fucking is. Jesus God, I did not expect the parallels to be this fucking blatant. I had expected unpaid manual labor, and also the sort of upheaval when these prisoners are released paralleling the freedmen's situation after the abolition of slavery (being thrust into the larger world with no new skills and a lot of distrust, among other things), but did they really have to go all the nine yards?
This photo was taken in 1997 at the Ferguson Unit, a prison in Madison County, Texas. And before the Civil War, it was a cotton plantation. And it still fucking is. Jesus God, I did not expect the parallels to be this fucking blatant. I had expected unpaid manual labor, and also the sort of upheaval when these prisoners are released paralleling the freedmen's situation after the abolition of slavery (being thrust into the larger world with no new skills and a lot of distrust, among other things), but did they really have to go all the nine yards?
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
