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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
The prison chain gang system from the 1860's on up to the 1930's was just slavery in another form. Black convicts would be officially issued a sentence short enough to qualify for the chain gangs [then have it lengthened by dubious penalties regardless how well behaved they were]. Meanwhile white convicts would get- again officially, sentences too long to qualify and then get out on VERY early release on good behavior. Occasionally white inmates went on the chain gangs, but the vast majority were Black. And it's not until a white chain gang inmate reported the physical abuses as his reason for escaping that the practice was halted.
See, unlike slaves prison laborers could be abused to the point of being mamed or killed without consequence to those contracting with the prisons for labor. Many chain gangs were used on plantations formerly worked by slaves, yet again, with far less food and more brutal treatment.
And, lest we forget, that slavery alone isn't why many Black citizens feel resentment and agrer toward whites.
But of course a bigoted pieces of shit like BornWrong know there's more to this than he pretends.
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Damn SKIPPY!!!
I love a man who knows his history!!
Of course the privatization of the prison industry and the increasing use of prisoners for unskilled labor for many jobs (BR --- You didn't REALLY think that all the disappearing jobs went overseas did you) has created a situation that is only minimally unlike the chain gangs!
Notably in the book written recently about the use of african americans for medical experimentation included a section about the use of prisoners--black and white---for modern day (that means NOW BR) medical experiments for drug companies!
Frankly, if you look at how poor blacks and poor whites are treated you will find little difference in the severity of offenses committed against them.
The difference is that the white poor have been convinced to be the butt puppies of their rich counterparts by being conditioned to believe that it is the blacks or the mexicans or the somebody elses who are responsible for their fate in life.
And why......
Because the wealthy need poverty--- a desparate consumer class---to continue their cash flow and if all the poor whites stopped hating long enough and figured out who they should be working with---all hell would break loose!