HAVE IT YOUR WAY CONVICT LEASING
“America must make a special selection; to decide on to care about folks’s humanity versus revenue.” These are phrases from Britt White, a sister who, in her 20s was incarcerated in Alabama for 5 years. Whereas serving time, and allowed to work at Burger King, the state of Alabama took 60% of each greenback Britt made as a result of she and others had been thought of property of the state. And sure, convict leasing is alive and properly in 2023. By 1898, Alabama “earned” 73% of its income from convict leasing. And right here we’re, 125 years later, and convict leasing continues to be making state-sanctioned income off labor stolen from predominantly Black and Brown incarcerated souls. Britt, now an activist preventing to finish the “slavery if incarcerated” exception within the thirteenth Modification, mentioned, “Folks I really like are denied parole and stored in jail as a result of their bodily beings equal capital for therefore many rich folks in America.” Y’all, we will’t let her combat alone. Let’s all help the Abolition Modification.
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE
Blackfolk knowledge says, “People can name you no matter they need. What issues is what you reply to.” When folks inform you Blacks benefited from expertise discovered throughout enslavement,” they’re calling you and yo’ mama each form of idiot there may be. However you don’t need to reply to that nonsense. First, data abound that present that enslavers sought to seize Africans from particular areas BECAUSE of the abilities they possessed (in rising rice, masonry, animal husbandry, and so on.). We already had expertise, intelligence, creativity, and so on. Second, numerous tens of millions of our ancestors died penniless, or darn close to, expert or not, as a result of the racist social construction wouldn’t enable them to revenue off their genius in the best way the U.S. “free market financial system” advertises. So, don’t allow them to “piss in your face and inform you it’s raining.” One other Blackfolk knowledge nugget for the highway.
PROJECT 2025
I just lately heard an activist buddy begin a sentence by saying, “I don’t need to get all conspiratorial on y’all, however…” And I felt that. I’m not one to leap on all of the conspiracy trains. However, one, not all loopy theories are loopy. And two, it’s not a conspiracy in the event that they’re doing it proper in your face. Living proof: Mission 2025. You may go to their web site proper now. They unashamedly announce their intent to make America a fascist nation. They lay out their plan for centralizing all energy within the president… extra particularly, the following Republican president. Much more particularly, they’re praying it’s Trump. They need to take Congress’s energy over the nation’s cash and energy of all regulation enforcement and place it within the fingers of this GOP president who they’re working to see inaugurated Jan. 2025. And to whom all administration members should a loyalty pledge. Not too way back, if another democracy-practicing nation had a political get together speaking about eradicating all checks and balances from their elected chief, thereby making that particular person a dictator who solutions to nobody, U.S. media would roast them as a hazard to the planet. Lo and behold, that hazard is correct right here. The decision is coming from inside the home.
