The New Jim Crow

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"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".

As white people love to point out, black people are a minority yet they make up most of the prison population.

Many times it's for petty crimes or drug related offenses. The same drugs the government put into our communities in the first place, and it bore a cycle of drugs and violence.

The same government that started this drug mess is trying to give drugs dealers the death penalty? I think not. Yall made this mess and you're not going to kill people for it.

Look at the school to prison pipeline. They are trying to fill up the prisons with black and brown bodies. Does that not disturb you? They're basically scouting out kids for prison.

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