1) Never believe that slavery is disconnected from the present. It wasn’t that long ago. If you take the age of your parents and multiply it by three (or four), you are probably somewhere near the slave era. This is just a few generations back.
2) Many of the atrocities that occurred during slavery, which did tremendous psychological and economic damage to African Americans, are similar to the same processes used to enslave African Americans today in the prison industrial complex. To make this point more clearly, the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution says that slavery is allowed to this day if a person has been convicted of a felony. Similar to the Fugitive Slave Acts, this implies that any African American who has a label placed on their head due to an arbitrary law (such as the crack-to-powder disparity) can then be made into a slave. So, when someone says that prison is modern day slavery, they aren’t exxaggerating: The constitution says that it is."
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