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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
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And if anyone is wondering how this is legal (yes, it is 100% legal), I hereby direct them to the US Constitution, 13th Amendment, Section 1,
In other words, slavery or involuntary servitude is fair game if you've been convicted of a crime.
Which is very fucked-up in my opinion. "Land of the Free", my ass...
The article mentions some portion of the enslaved people having been detained by ICE, which doesn't seem like quite the same thing as having been duly convicted of a crime
Tbf, many if not most of the people convicted were already poor people, especially minorities, who were railroaded by the prison slavery industrial complex even BEFORE ICE existed, let alone became one of the top 15 military forces in the world by funding.
True, it would still be terrible if they followed the law, but it's worth noting if they don't even bother.
So coincidental that the US has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, one that just happens to skew heavily non-white. Land of the free indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
I mean, it’s not a secret. That’s what the clause was almost explicitly for. Slaves freed, vagrancy or similar becomes a crime, former slaves become prisoners because people won’t give them jobs so they don’t live in a house (also at the judgement of legal/judicial officials as to what counted as housed), many go back to the same plantations/workhouses they were already at.
It didn’t slip through, it’s not a conspiracy theory, and it isn’t the quiet part being said out loud. It was always loud.
Yes...? your tone sounds argumentative, but I'm not sure if you meant to come off that way. I wasn't trying to imply that it is secret knowledge, just regular knowledge that not everyone knows about.
I was more frustrated that more people DON’T know this about our history.
Damn. They had to reserve the darkest color solely for the USA ... and El Salvador.
Land of the free
Home of the slave