thejusticethatissocial:

cloverfeels:

fandomshatepeopleofcolor:

dismantlexsjwsxfeminism:

so the government is uses “slaves” the same people who tax dollars pay for their housing and food in prison while kids have to pay for lunch at school? you understand INMATES  are used to clean up trash on roads… is that slavery? lmao the ignorance is hilarious

Yeah it actually is. Do you know what a slave is?

slaveslāv/

noun

historicalplural noun:

slaves

1. 1.a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.synonyms:historicalserf, vassal, thrall; More

Inmate labor is slave labor. 

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it’s so bizarre that people are still ignorant of this when the 13th amendment was created with the intentional inclusion of a loophole that the government could abuse in order to profit from slave labor: "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.”

convict lending and Jim Crow laws immediately sprung up to fill the place of what we traditionally think of as slavery, and led to the use of mass incarceration as a way for corporations to profit off of imprisoned (disproportionately black and brown) people and obtain free labor. the labor of incarcerated people has always been and was designed to be slave labor from the very beginning.

There is a documentary called 13th on netflix that goes into detail on all of this, I really recommend it