Slavery by Another Name. GREAT INTERVIEW-1/2

Slavery by Another Name: Author Douglas Blackmon on the Re-Enslavement of Black People in America

A new book by award-winning journalist Douglas Blackmon uncovers the forgotten history of neo-slavery imposed on hundreds and thousands of African Americans that continued well after the Civil War and persisted right up to the 1940s. Using extensive archival sources, Blackmon uncovers the shameful system created to re-enslave African Americans. Under new laws, they were intimidated, arrested, charged with exorbitant fines, and then sold as forced laborers to corporations, mines and plantations or compelled into involuntary servitude. [includes rush transcript]

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[lilrog0909]

Fuck that if I was alive back then... I would have taken out 30 white people before they took me out damn it.... Black people had nothing to lose back then!

[peepnklown]

We cannot forget the disenfranchised votes of Blacks and other minorities in 2000 and 2004.

[hiagainandagain]

@lilrog0909 their lives

[hustlaus]

@Zari7000 This needs to be brought up because many don't know about this. The more people who learn and talk about this the better. This helps me to not only fill in a link in the timeline that I created about Black History but it helped me to understand how many corporations in America either created or maintained wealth. I can also relate the conspiracies and experiences of what Black people went through back then to what we are currently going through as a people today.

[hustlaus]

@1pitchblack If you learn about the race riots of the early 1900's you'll see similar incidents occurred in the North. Check Springfield, Chicago, etc.

[hustlaus]

profit. That is why you see black males dominating the prison system today. It's not because we are more prone to commit crimes as a people but that there are conditions that we are put in and police that target us. They know that the majority of young black males do not have the resources or political connections to get themselves out of harsh sentences. In addition, the media creates an atmosphere that makes people fear us. Thus, we are guilty until substantially proven innocent (Darryl Hunt).

[hustlaus]

There is some important information that I hope everyone caught. First of all, Mr. Blackmon said that there were laws on the books that didn't specify black people but basically the target was black people. You can co-relate this to the pants sagging laws and crack vs. meth laws and how they are executed today. Secondly, I hope that people understand that the creation of peonage spawned the birth of the prison industrial complex. The PIC is a conspiracy to lock black males up in prison for

[1pitchblack]

This is why most of my family move to the North!

[1pitchblack]

Damn this is very upsetting to see this!

[Zari7000]

This is trickery, This is to keep your mind off of whats going on now.

[Zari7000]

Why bring up this bullshit again. Look whats happening around you now! Slavery is alive right here. Why not do a movie about black wall street how we had it goin on. And the white cracka's came and destroyed it all.

[achcunam]

@agent2020 , I had to retype it cause i saw the error, I love black history from the black preception.