My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP
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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6682912
My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP
“My dad had to do chores when he was growing up 😭😭” - KY State Rep. Jennifer Decker
Sounds like a share cropper and victim of wage slave capitalism.
Dummy
Sounds like the run-of-the-mill child labour you see across the US (I consistently did this for my dad till probably about 17).
Not to forget the other type, which is migrant children working in factories illegally.
Admitting that you think poor people are slaves isn't the flex you think it is you feckless bag of hair.
Yeah, because growing up poor and being a slave are the same. WTF is wrong with these people?
It's simply Abrahamic mental illness.
All 3 of them
I initially read this as "Alabrahamic". Couple the mental illness with the desire to show boat and decieve, like "Alakazam! Jesus Saves y'all^TM^!"
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.
I’ve never heard a black person say “My father was a slave”, because it’s fucking 2024, what the hell?
I have.
Too many unaware of how prison labor works, it seems.
It's true that there were a significant number of white (European) indentured servants/slaves in the Americas during the first centuries of colonization:
reference
Wikipedia article
However, by the 1900s white slavery really only persisted in the form of sexual trafficking of women, which ultimately led to the passing of the Mann Act in 1910. It's also likely that the idea of an organized slave trade at this time was hyperbolic:
To claim that her father was a "slave" in the 1930s is a serious misappropriation of the term.
I'll argue to anyone that every Vietnam and Korean War draftee was a slave, or at least as much a slave as serfdom was.
As bad as chattel slavery, no, but forced into dangerous labor for the profit of an uncaring oligarchy by threats of violence, yes.
We should have never gotten rid of the draft and we should have increased the odds of the rich and the leaders if this country being drafted to the front line positions. It would be a great way to make sure we don't take part in useless wars.
Rich people don't get drafted
'I ain't no senators son...i ain't no fortunate one'
I'd agree with this as long as it was a draft for general federal service, not necessarily military. We could draft into the park service, NOAA, NIST, the forestry service, BLM, heck I bet we could even figure out how to use draftees in DoE. I don't see any problem with a few years of required federal service for all citizens, and there are lots of options.
If it were me I’d rather be forced to do field labor than be forced to fight a war.
Vietnam was pretty fucking bad.
Sid Meier's Colonization taught me this!
Equating forced labor, prison labor, indentured servitude, and poverty to chattel slavery is ignorance at best and serves white supremacy by minimizing the the Atlantic Slave Trade. If you get confused, just ask: Is someone legally allowed to sell my child?
🤡
Karl Marx agrees.
STFU Karl.
But Kaaaaarrrrrl! I just love snacking on human faces!
So what is the term of the child of an indentured servant?
It's right there in the question: child of an indentured servant
What exactly is a dirt farm?