Seeing the Elephant: ICE

Understanding Old Fashioned Neoslavery So We Can See Its Offspring -ICE

Slavery did not on Juneteenth, it morphed. The courts said the mutant enslavement was slavery and they said they could do nothing to stop it.

It was neo-slavery. It was not one thing. It was a patchwork of slavery. Share cropping and peonage were two kinds.

People, mostly black men, were snatched off the streets for vagrancy (not having a job) or traffic tickets.

Different places had different systems but generally unless they could afford to pay a huge fine at the time of arrest, they had to stay in jail.

Private companies would pay the fine and bond the worker to the company until the fine was paid off. They also had to pay for room and board.

If they left, they would be taken to jail, and the jail would return them to the “employer.”

This was called peonage.

Share cropping offered black folks land to grow on for a percentage of the crop but they had to buy products at the company store - on credit. They could not get out from under the debts and could not escape the contracts.

The 13th Amendment did not criminalize slavery, nor did it give a process to protect citizens from slavery by governments.

The practice of enslaving people for things like not having a job continued in mass until the 1940s when they needed black men for the war effort and the US government finally stepped in to change it.

It continued in other similar forms in the 1960s.

There are people alive who suffered under these slavery models.

The system morphed and developed mass incarceration model. That uses crime to force workers into involuntary work.

Now we have new people being ripped off the street. Almost none are not charged with a crime, instead jailed for a civil offense. Some are working in Kern County, CA for $1 a day and phone calls costing $5. Prisons out of the country are forcing migrants we sent to them to work without pay. Prisons are being built in the US. To house more captives.

But you can buy your way out if you can buy the $5 million dollar citizenship offered by Trump.

These videos are really worth the investment to understand neoslavery.

Please.