Black People : Commercial Slavery In 2001

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There was (is) a condition, a disorder, and an experiment, which existed two-three hundred years ago. It sucked the souls out of African people.

It stripped them from their beliefs and culture. It degraded their dignity, trapped and demobilized them in chains and shackles.

It exempted their liberty leaving nothing but skeletal images behind.

These images however were animated, and strong. But they were emotional and spiritually dead

This condition, disorder, experiment was the rape of Africa

It was the alienation of black people and their culture

It mutilated their lives.

Now, tell me what was the meaning of 4th of July in 1776 to an African Slave?

What is 4th of July today to an African-American?

If so-called freedom still prevails why is it that our right to vote is still a bill and not a law?

Why does Massa still have commercial slavery in the 21st century?

Why are more jails or barracks being built to house the unwanted
black population? ---Peace----
 
Why???

Because it means free labor (which is how america was built). Where/How else can companies get young, strong, black males and females to work for them at virtualy no cost? If a thing isn't broke, why fix it? Here's a great article that addresses this issue, it is found on the site, The Talking Drum:

The Prison Industrial Complex.

Destee
 
I did a search on google and it came up with quite a few links regarding corporations using prison labor, check them out here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=companies+using+prison+labor

I am also including an excerpt from one of the articles I found by Angela Davis, which lists a few of the companies using prison labor. You can read it in its entirety at the following link:

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex

Moreover, corporations that appear to be far removed from the business of punishment are intimately involved in the expansion of the prison industrial complex. Prison construction bonds are one of the many sources of profitable investment for leading financiers such as Merrill Lynch. MCI charges prisoners and their families outrageous prices for the precious telephone calls which are often the only contact prisoners have with the free world.

Many corporations whose products we consume on a daily basis have learned that prison labor power can be as profitable as third world labor power exploited by U.S.-based global corporations. Both relegate formerly unionized workers to joblessness and many even wind up in prison. Some of the companies that use prison labor are IBM, Motorola, Compaq, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Microsoft, and Boeing. But it is not only the hi-tech industries that reap the profits of prison labor. Nordstrom department stores sell jeans that are marketed as "Prison Blues," as well as t-shirts and jackets made in Oregon prisons. The advertising slogan for these clothes is "made on the inside to be worn on the outside." Maryland prisoners inspect glass bottles and jars used by Revlon and Pierre Cardin, and schools throughout the world buy graduation caps and gowns made by South Carolina.

"For private business," write Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans (a political prisoner inside the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin, California) "prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers' compensation to pay. No language barriers, as in foreign countries. New leviathan prisons are being built on thousands of eerie acres of factories inside the walls. Prisoners do data entry for Chevron, make telephone reservations for TWA, raise hogs, shovel manure, make circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and lingerie for Victoria's Secret -- all at a fraction of the cost of 'free labor.'"
What business would not take advantage of this pot of gold if they could?

Destee
 

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