Hi, cisgender white man here (though probably not neurotypical and more like neuro-nutty). Let me just try to address a little but of your excellent point. First off, one hundred percent agree: Solidarity Wins. You have to keep saying it and reminding yourself. It’s a major point. Think about this way, you are on one side and the DeSantin unwoke white mob is the other. You been “out of the closet” for a decade or three; I’m you with. I don’t think my brother was ever in the closet, but I remember anyway when he came out officially to my mother (who was mildly shocked for maybe three seconds mentally but one second in her heart—northeastern socialist professor and peace activist). I’ve been more on his his side since the 80s then he’s been on his side (II argue gays should be allowed to get married while argued he didn’t think it was a good idea when I came home in the mid 90s for a college break—I won, he got married after SCOTUS decision). So Ok, great, we’ve been in solitary for a few decades, add to that the stonewall and pride parades, lots of great feelings and love. Have to keep up that solidarity to reach our goals of inclusive freedom.
Now the other side. Setting down on the beach of Florida’s west coast were some black enslaved feet in 1526. The whites brought more. Then more. They stood in solidarity for the next 349 years against the black enslaved population, squeezing free labor out of them. Then in 1866 in that region they switched to a convict leasing system, that used black enslaved labor through leases made by the sheriff under the governor. They on that side auctioned that labor off that was captured in one to five years leases for the next seventy years in many states.
Actually in Florida they halted that convict leasing system around 1923 when the activists against it publicized the crime of a black American man named Martin Tolbert was whipped to death while being rented out by the state in a lease. His crime? He was caught riding a train. His was a normal fate for black men in the South.
The system did not go away (because the Exception Clause in the US Constitution). It morphed into something different. Now, right this second, you can on the Florida Prison website to rent out the captured labor of black Americans (and now some latinos to be fair). Right now. Yes, you can rent black and brown humans and use their labor for your profit. The company run by the state is called—wait for it—PRIDE. Not SLAVE, but PRIDE. How about that for a misnomer? Using PRIDE, like the pride flag, to disguise a program of “prison labor,” that “trains” prisoners (black and brown rented labor) for the good of “society” and all that junk.
OPPAGA fl dot gov is the website. But the man in charge it says is Jack Edgemon. He answers to DeSantis and is ultra right. That’s white men in Florida bound together in solidarity for almost 500 hundred years profiting from the use of the captured labor of black Americans (and some Latinos to be fair). We’ve been in solidarity how long against them again? You want love. They want to captured black American labor to lease out for money to companies and their friends. They don’t care if you laugh at them. They are clearly winning. About to celebrate 500 years. You fail to believe this hard truth. But those companies who lease the labor make money from using that free labor they train.