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Slavery is private service.
#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-25 11:02 AM | Reply | Flag:
The US govt retains its sole monopoly on slavery.

Meet The New Boss.
Same As The Old Boss.

(Some Whites will look you dead in the eye and say the new boss isn't racist, but that's another story.)

Convict Leasing
Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced in the Southern United States, where private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of incarcerated people, nearly all of whom were Black.

The state of Louisiana leased out convicted people as early as 1844.[1] The system expanded throughout most of the South with the emancipation of enslaved people at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.[2] The practice peaked about 1880 and persisted in various forms until gradually phased out following Francis Biddle's "Circular No. 3591" of December 12, 1941. Whilst not having been explicitly abolished, the practice became politically untenable. As a result other forms of prison labour remain legal in the United States, under the Thirteenth Amendment's penal exemption clause.

The system was highly lucrative for both the lessees and state governments.[2] For example, in 1898, 73 percent of Alabama's annual state revenue came from convict leasing,[3] whilst contractors were able to lease people at costs as low as $9 a month.[4][5] Corruption, lack of accountability, and violence resulted in "one of the harshest and most exploitative labor systems known in American history".[6] African Americans, mostly adult males, due to "vigorous and selective enforcement of laws and discriminatory sentencing", comprised the vast majority, though not all, of the convicted people leased.[7]
en.wikipedia.org

"You're starting from the point that "the police are racist". The numbers don't bear that out(yes, there are racist cops)"

"Yes, there are racist cops"
Is just another way of saying
The police are racist.
I don't know why you can't see it that way.

Do you really think an organization where racists operate freely can't rightfully be described as racist?

but according to a left leaning media you'd think the police in majority were out hunting black people.
#66 | Posted by kwrx25

You just made that up. That isn't depicted in any mass media you've seen either. Link up if you want to make me look like a dum dum!

But let's look at what the numbers bear out.
Here are some numbers we all saw.

One cop pulled George Floyd from the car and choked him out, while three other cops stood around doing nothing.

What those numbers bear out is "police in the majority" will let the racist cop commit murder.

Maybe that's not racism. You're so intent on claiming it's not racism that you don't seem to be bothered by the fact that even if it isn't racist, it's quite obviously murder, which one might think ought to bother you more.

But you spend most of the conversation denying cops are racist, like denying racism is a bigger concern for you than the fact that the cops are murdering people in the streets.

And if you can't agree that we both saw that, then you need to get your eyes checked.

White people like Pretti, even. You probably don't think that was police fascism, just like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner and George Floyd and Elijah McClaim was police racism.

Any of this getting through to you?

Racism is bigger than racist cops. It's bigger than the other three cops that let Chauvin murder Floyd. It's bigger than any police department. It's at least as big as the history of this nation.

But you seem to believe "the police aren't racist." All those racist police, and yes there are racist police, but somehow they don't add up to anything bigger.

That's like saying there's just a few isolated incidents of priests raping boys, there's nothing bigger connecting these unfortunate isolated incidents. Yet the media unfairly portrays most priests as predators.

It's not just that it's wrong.

It's that it's a lie, told by liars.

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