I agree. Being a slave is horrible. Living in a project where one is thoroughly dependent on government and subject to high crime is not much better. It’s trading one form of slavery for another. Comparing the two doesn’t mean I think either one is good.
And what about the ones in prison? And there are a LOT of ‘em.
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
-The words of LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
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