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I just starting bawling my eyes out

Slavery was a choice though right? 

My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.

Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.

My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.

Please also note that this still isn’t over, as our current penal system is just legalized slavery that’s permitted because of a loophole in the 13th Amendment that permits slavery as the result of being convicted of a crime, and there are still far, far too many people brought here every year as so-called domestic help who are kept as slaves. Slavery never ended in this shithole of a country.