The Reality Of How America Was Built.

[sheshe2]

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- Cool give me a hand up, will ya?

-I got up here myself, why can't you?

I saw this toon a few years ago and in fact have been looking for it on and off for a long time. Then boom, here it is.

Nothing says racism more than this image. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[lunatica]

1. And it continues to this day.

[sheshe2]

4. Yes it does, lunatica.

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon was a very enlightening yet sobering read.

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, published by Anchor Books in 2008.[2] It explores the forced labor of imprisoned black men and women, through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern United States. Blackmon argues that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War, but instead persisted well into the 20th century. It depicts the subjugation of Convict Leasing, Sharecropping and Peonage and tells the fate of the former but not of the latter two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name

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Yes, a version of this still happens today. See Ferguson to name one. A real money maker for Ferguson PD. Bogus arrests, excessive fines, imprisoned.

[47of74]

8. I think the 13th Amendment is fatally flawed

It still allows slavery through the punishment for a crime exception.

It needs to be replaced with one that absolutely forbids slavery in the United States with the death penalty required for violations.

[Cary]

14. Human beings are fatally flawed.

[warmfeet]

2. It actually speaks to all inequality. K & R

I am somewhat convinced, a bit anyway, that we can do better than this.

[sheshe2]

7. Thank you for your K&R, warmfeet.

I am somewhat convinced, a bit anyway, that we can do better than this.

This I wholeheartedly agree.

However.

It actually speaks to all inequality.

Partially I agree. Yet when it comes to African American which the toon is talking about, I politely disagree. I do not know of any other people that were kidnapped from their homeland, packed in cargo ships like pieces of meat and then shipped to America to be sold as slaves or worked like animals and beaten mercilessly, sometimes to death. They were not even treated as human.

This photo breaks my heart.



Fact is slaves were thought to be free after the Emancipation Proclamation. Fact is it continued until WWII...and still continues today.

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Slavery By Another Name
by Douglas Blackmon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name

A very sobering read.

[sandensea]

3. And more broadly, it's what much of the elite has been doing to society for aeons.

A few genuinely earned their status, sure (though not without considerable public help). But most are little more than hereditary, Latin America-style oligarchs.

The way of the world, sadly.

[Kurt V.]

5. i had no idea.

[Cryptoad]

6. Left out the first step

had to kill and steal the land of Native Americans they are standing on.....

[misanthrope]

11. Yep and that was rationalized by racism as well

They painted indigenous people as subhuman, as lesser. When the Cherokee played along with white America, emulating their ways in order to gain some degree of leeway from the new overlords, it worked for a while. Then gold was discovered in Cherokee territory and the Trail of Tears emerged.

[SMC22307]

9. America was built by rich white men exploiting labor...

labor of slaves, indentured servants, and low-wage workers of all races. Think cotton, steel, coal mines, railroads, etc.

[LibFarmer]

10. Very nicely pictured nt

[DesertRat]

12. Wow. Spot on

K&R

[brer cat]

13. K&R

[Cary]

15. Not to refute what you're saying here She, but the irony is ...

that many white people who display that attitude (most? I think) are poor and oppressed themselves.

I don't think my ancestors ever had a leg up from slaves. My father grew up a mile away from a big fat sign reading "No Jews Allowed" and had a really hard time finding a job after his discharge from the army after the Korean War.

As with most good lies there is some truth in the idea of raising oneself up. It's unfortunate though that "conservatives" somehow won the affirmative action debate and even more ironic that the white idiots who were duped into opposing affirmative actions hurt themselves.

[sheshe2]

16. I hear ya, Cary.

[lapucelle]

17. K&R