Reply #48: The neo-slavery did not really end after WW2, it just took another form, with profits being derived [View All]

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from the incarceration of blacks through the same discriminatory legal maneuvers and power relationships. Rather than using blacks for free labor, the prison industrial complex makes what, a thousand bucks a year, five thousand?, from the state coffers for every one that they lock up in their prisons. And the underclass, both black and white (and Native American and Hispanic and so on) but especially black, are the easiest to victimize. The same effect on families and the same effect on both black and white cultures.

That was a great and revealing program and the research behind the book was very important. I knew that something of that sort had been going on, but didn't really grasp the significance before watching that Moyers program. I urge any who missed it to watch the online version.