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There were news stories as recent as 2012 about schools in the south being segregated. There are still sundown towns. Segregation only ended on paper.
Redlining went through to the 70s
Did slavery actually end? i mean you work 9-5 sometimes with unpaid overtime, you get unpaid PTO, you don’t get any health insurance, you don’t have enough to save something for retirement and you live paycheck to paycheck so it’s slavery embellished with being called “work”.
This is a dumb take. The horrors of capitalism aren’t the same as the horrors of slavery.
The lashings are psychological now
Slavery is still legal in the US as per the 13th amendment.
I’d actually really like to see a graph showing incarceration as a different category of slavery. Maybe have like like total slavery as one line then the different forms of slavery as other lines. I’d like to think total slavery is at least going down, but it’d be good to see how far we have to go and over what periods we’ve lost ground.
Yeah, no. Segregation magically ending in 1954? The Civil Rights struggles of the 60s didn’t happen? Redlining and Ghettoizing of Black communities? Destruction of Black families by mass incarceration of Black males and forcing families to stay apart to collect benefits, while vilifying single Black mothers as “welfare queens”? We have never, ever been in the green.
Yeah, wtf. Martin Luther King got shot in 68. They just forgot to tell him that all is well for 14 years?
There was also a tiny sliver of reconstruction for 12 years in there too. Then the killing sliver at the end of that.
while vilifying single Black mothers as “welfare queens”?
You forgot the “best” part: poor people renting apartments end up subsidizing wealthier people living in single-family homes, because suburban sprawl doesn’t generate enough tax revenue per acre to fund the infrastructure and services it consumes. The white middle-class bigots doing the vilifying are, themselves, the real welfare queens!
Even slavery is still around.
Hell, there were (are still?) segregated schools up until around 2000. I know at least one wasn’t set to desegregate until sometime in the 90s.
I remember reading about a segregated prom in like 2013
The further north you go the more segregated it gets and still is today. But we never think of the northern states as segregated.
The northern states aren’t really segregated, we just have like 99% white people.
The civil rights act is from 1964, so even shorter time than the picture shows.
Its worse than that slavery against native Americans was earlier even if we only count territory that would be in the united states eventually and only by Europeans and their descendants, and the last person sold as a slave and the “owner” not being sentenced to life without parole was in world war 2.
And after that, VRA, loving vs Virginia, fair housing act. Ending segregation was a gradual process that, by many metrics, still isn’t complete, but any date before 1964 or 1968 is a big fat lie.
What is the US prison system but slavery with extra steps?
there aren’t even really extra steps considering slavery is perfectly legal in prisons according to the constitution
The yellow should be orange and the green should be yellow and labeled “carcereal slavery”
I was going to comment something along these lines with the war on drugs, but legal slavery for imprisoned persons is a huge part of why the war on drugs was pursued and persists.
If you count incarceration
We do. It is specifically and explicitly an exception in the US Constitution:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Remember that some places were forced to desegregate in the 1990s.
What’s special about 1619 to be considered the start of American slavery?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia
In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort, near the Jamestown colony, on a British privateer ship flying a Dutch flag.
It was when enslaved African people were first brought to Jamestown. Exactly when the start is more broadly is kind of harder to say since some things are more disputed
The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.
https://www.history.com/articles/american-slavery-before-jamestown-1619
It’s when England began colonizing the americas. Which is kind of arbitrary since there were slaves in the Americas before that and the founding of The United States of America was over 100 years later.
And let’s not forget “… WiTH aLl DeLiBErATe sPeEd!”
Is this that weird credit score indicator thingy that people post every once in a while?
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