ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months 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 · 9 months 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-down3·9 months 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-up1·9 months 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.