Why America can’t escape its racist roots? Slavery was not really abolished in A

CJKent,

I am sure you know BLACK FOLKS sold slaves to white folks and the BLACK FOLKS owned slaves. Correct?

OR are you as ignorant or stupid as you seem?

Fuck you CJKent. Don't go away mad. Just go away.

We replaced physical slavery with debt and wage slavery. Expanded it to all. Racism has been a sort of psychological wage. A euphemism for class in American history

IceyLoco,

When you say "We" as in "We replaced physical slavery with debt and wage slavery.", I hope you are talking about "We" as your side, the left, the party OF slavery! Also, look at all the crappy situations in cities for black folks. Do you not find it strange that most all have a (D) behind the mayor's name?

Slavery has been abolished unless you commit a crime.

But that's the way it should be, violent criminals should essentially become slaves. That's how they atone for the pain they cause to other people with their behavior.

nytimes.com

Debt prison was a real thing. Wage slavery is the norm.

Prison slave labor benefits the prison industrial complex. Nothing more

IceyLoco,

Debt: a state of being under obligation to pay or repay someone or something in return for something received : a state of owing. Per Merriam-Webster

"repay someone or something in return for something received"

So you are saying people PUT THEMSELVES in debt prison, correct?

Doesn't seem a problem anyone else should worry about, except their family or friends.

Debt is most often coercive when it comes to private individuals. But the far right believes in handouts for the rich.

Debt is a class race problem used to control people. A part of systemic racism

This is stupid. Blacks have all the opportunities in the world in this country. At this point it is more racist to believe we don't than we do.

aleccorbett,

Agreed. Life is chock full of choices every minute of every day. The vast majority may be as simple as choosing to eat a hamburger. Some could be more troublesome, like trying to beat that train at the crossing, etc.

Systemic racism controls which choices are viable.

As a black person that earns a six figure net worth and grew up in the hood and has known many other black people that have done the same.

It hecking doesn't.

White people aren't so racist to not want your goods and servicves if the quality is there. That includes your labor.

The fact that white people are saying this, en masse, is extra stupid. Since they are often the ones that believe they have the solution. Miss me with that shit. Step aside and give blacks the dignity of earning our own futures.