Bren Kelly
3 min read1 day ago

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I looked for it and found it. Here it is.

This is just my two cents, but white slavery of blacks in particular is the worst institution of whites supremacy still being perpetrated today on American soil, and massively benefiting American and European companies in Africa. Here’s a couple quotes and example of modern slavery, since I’ve been collecting examples and researching the long 500 year history of this institution on American soil for a book.
“We’ve got legalized plantations. They say they want us to be citizens, they want to rehabilitate us, but then they don’t do anything that allows that to happen. Technically, by the constitution, we’re slaves, and they can whip our backs.” -- Dante Jones, a slave in California, in an article in the LA Times 2024 (FYI—he called himself accurately a slave, no me).

“California is one of 16 states whose constitutions allow forced labor [“slavery or involuntary servitude” in the state and federal constitution] in prisons. Some prison workers make as little as 8 cents an hour.”
After lawmakers rejected a proposed constitutional change in 2022, Assembly member Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun City){a black female lawmaker] said.
“The measure would “prohibit slavery in any form” and states that a prison or jail “shall not punish” an incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment.” But the law failed to get on the ballot in 2022. Instead, Prop 6 in 2025 became a ballot measure to outlaw slavery or “involuntary servitude.” Finally after ballot measure. But white people and their conservative allies defeated in November 2024 in California 54% to 46%. The state was allowed to keep using the institution of slavery, disguising it as “prison labor.”
In 2022, white Louisianans defeated a similar ballot measure that blacks made to end slavery, or what I call black hands picking cotton on the same plantation for 180 years with white men on horses with guns over seeing them every year. The margin was wider, 62% about of white supremacists. Louisiana has been using “convict leasing” slavery for 158 years, though it is technically called “slavery or involuntary servitude.”
Again, for some reason, that entire length of time that began decades before the Civil War and goes to today, 180 years of black hands picking cotton under the watchful eye of white men with guns on horses, magically changed in the minds of whites and blacks outside the system though from “slavery” to “convict leasing” to “prison labor.” But it remained the same physical reality to those who experienced it on the inside.
I’ve read the 2019 audit report of the state of Louisiana prison system that shows that cotton is still being picked after I heard testimony from men enslaved and picking the cotton.
The cotton incidentally is sold for profit to Cargill, the largest privately held agricultural company in the world. They don’t directly employ the black enslaved humans, but just by the product that those black hands picked. They are the “ultimate beneficiary.” The won in the Supreme Court in 2021 along with Nestle and ADM, in the Nestle v Doe case. The case concerned 6 black African children who were suing because they were trafficked across an international border and forced to pick cocoa beans in Ivory Coast. Child slave labor. The same black hands picking crops, the same “ultimate beneficiary” of slave labor.
Disgusting? Depraved? Absolutely. The worse examples of white supremacy in America? Well, white people getting rich off black enslaved people, in my opinion, is not just white supremacy but it is white systemic racism against Black Americans and Black African children sanctified by laws and constitutional permissions. So yes, the worst form of racism and supremacy I know of. It fuels white hatred at the core.
A greater institution of systemic racism you won’t find, and every voter in those states should be dammmed to H-ll for voting to continue slavery. Unfortunately, it seems America has stopped caring about this depraved institution that has been allowed to continue by the courts and white supremacist voters.
That’s the example I found.
Keep on staying strong, loud and proud. I deeply sense this world needs your voice more than ever.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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