Until we rewrite the thirteenth amendment to eliminate the slavery that it allows, which was aimed at blacks, then we will remain systemically racist country and not a full democracy. In short, I agree that problem is pervasive, immoral, and against the inalienable or human rights we profess to support. We condemn the Chinese for their similar treatment of the Uyghurs but fail to miss the irony of our condemnation of them. Our practice is worse then the Chinese because it has been institutionalized for over 150 years by being illegally incorporated into the so called Bill of Rights via an amendment.

Great piece. This dialogue must continue until the wrong is overturned.

The photo is an extra bonus because it is of children who have been enslaved. One in four black children during that time were enslaved by this loophole and rent out for profit as a chain gang to farmers. Thus police were reaping literal monetary reward from enslaving children, and keeping them seen as lowly, lazy and beastly people was key to arresting them in order to rent them out for their own private gain. In other words, the cops made money by degrading and demoralizing black Americans and the perception of them as a separate “race.” This is the literal truth that can’t be erased. Only denied and left out of history books by violent anti-CRT rhetoric.

Not only American child labor is evidenced by this photo, but child slavery as well. Those Chinese haven’t sunk as deep yet into the immoral swamp of human abuse of the Uyghurs that this picture represents.