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African Americans, if you have any doubts about the purpose of the Prison Industrial Complex, please read this chapter written by Ida B. Wells Barnett, one of the great movers and shakers among human rights advocates for African Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries... Here she lays out why African Americans were shunted off into prisons and work camps at that time... To perpetuate the exploitation of our cheap labor, to control what was known as "Masterless" African men, though fully 25% of those victimized by this wicked system were African children, thrown into prison with fully grown men!
Read it, but do not weep about it... Our struggle continues...
Peace!
isaiah
African Americans, if you have any doubts about the purpose of the Prison Industrial Complex, please read this chapter written by Ida B. Wells Barnett, one of the great movers and shakers among human rights advocates for African Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries... Here she lays out why African Americans were shunted off into prisons and work camps at that time... To perpetuate the exploitation of our cheap labor, to control what was known as "Masterless" African men, though fully 25% of those victimized by this wicked system were African children, thrown into prison with fully grown men!
Read it, but do not weep about it... Our struggle continues...
Peace!
isaiah