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The New Jim Crow

sonofbaldwin:

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

In the event you did not believe that the prison industrial complex and the criminal justice system that supports it are both inherently racist systems that seek to imprison people of color primarily, but also poor whites, as a source of “legal,” but immoral slave labor, I present Exhibit A: New Millennium Slavery:

VIDEO: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/5/new_expos_tracks_alec_private_prison

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