ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1276arrow-down1external-linkMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6682912 My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP
minus-squareliquidparasyte@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down3·2 years agoThere’s wage slavery, there’s debtor’s prison, there’s sharecropping, and then there’s chattel slavery. When ‘slavery’ is brought up in American politics we almost exclusively mean the latter. Absolute clown 🤡
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe situation she was referring to was indentured servitude.
There’s wage slavery, there’s debtor’s prison, there’s sharecropping, and then there’s chattel slavery.
When ‘slavery’ is brought up in American politics we almost exclusively mean the latter.
Absolute clown 🤡
The situation she was referring to was indentured servitude.