"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".
- 13th Amendment
prison is just plain slavery straight up... its not about correction or rehabilitation which is why recidivism is so high. You treat people like animals and they start acting like it. And thats definitely about controlling people.
and that bootstrap shit is just that...
The joke of it all is that whites have been getting govt handouts and handups since the beginning. from
* The 1790 Naturalization Act permitted only "free white persons" to become naturalized citizens
* White Americans were also given a head start with the help of the U.S. Army. The 1830 Indian Removal Act to make room for white settlers.
* The 1862 Homestead Act followed suit,literally giving away millions of acres of what had been Indian Territory west of the Mississipp to private hands, overwhelmingly white, under Homestead Act provisions.
* In the South, instead of giving freed slaves "40 acres and a mule" as reparations. Government officials paid up to $300 per slave upon emancipation - not to the slaves, but to local slaveholders as compensation for loss of property.
* Jim Crow laws
* The landmark Social Security Act of 1935 provided a safety net for millions of workers, guaranteeing them an income after retirement. But the act specifically excluded two occupations: agricultural workers and domestic servants, who were predominately African American, Mexican, and Asian.
* New Deal program, the Federal Housing Administration, that helped generate much of the wealth that so many white families enjoy today. Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government backed $120 billion of home loans. More than 98% went to whites.
* Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill 's language did not specifically exclude African-American veterans from its benefits, it was structured in a way that ultimately shut doors for the 1.2 million Black veterans who had bravely served their country during World War II, in segregated ranks.
* Like Social Security, the 1935 Wagner Act helped establish an important new right for white people. By granting unions the power of collective bargaining, it helped millions of white workers gain entry into the middle class over the next 30 years. Many craft unions remained nearly all-white well into the 1970s.
1790 to 1970...180 years of affirmative action and hand outs for whites at the expense of others. Seem to me the govt been giving hand outs for a long time didn't hear any conservative outcry about boot strapping and being self reliability then. And we havent touched on red lining and the war on drugs and skewed judicial system etc etc etc.
Yeah I know I threw race into the mix but thats what american society is....class and race. The fact that poor whites suffer only shows how poor whites consistently vote against their best interests and we're really going to see it at play big time when president musk gets going.
