Louisiana Voters Embrace Slavery in 2022

Absolute Proof of Systemic Racism

The Real Angola Slavery that was voted on [picture courtesy of The Atlantic in solid 2015 about the cotton-picking slavery going on Louisiana; their faces are hidden to hide their racial identity, or highlight it; this article is about how reform was voted down]

I don’t know how you can get more concrete hard proof of systemic racism that voters approving for slavery in Louisiana. Yes, slavery. How have we missed this? If you need better proof structural racism exists in 2022, I’m sorry, you won’t find it.

I know I feel stupid for no seeing it as I was writing the whole year about black American history and white conservative brutal repression of black Americans in American history. But when doing research on modern “slavery” in the last week, I was greatly relieved to find this article in, of all places, the Washington Post. It was a gold mine for me. Of course, for black Americans entrapped in the systemic structure of systemic slavery (I got to be redundant to bang it deeper into my head) it’s a deep dark hole.

The headline seems to bury the lead, of course. The fact that a bunch of MAGA conservative white people in Louisiana (and maybe some conservative blacks?? God forbid) is appalling, sickening, and beyond the pale. Voting for slavery is voting for autocracy. It’s not “like” voting for autocracy and against democracy, it is.

OK, before I go any further, here’s the exact language that caught my eye:

“On Tuesday, voters considered a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to say…