@paulrogers002 Got this news from you, before the Boston Globe in my TL.... very impressed Paul! ;-)
@paulrogers002 Depends on your definition of slavery, which could make it very topical for us all, but I agree otherwise.
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@C7RKY Chattel slavery: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chattel+slavery I note even they include wage slavery as def.4; coerced prison labour also key US issue today -
@paulrogers002 V much so. Did you ever catch that episode of QI where they raised prison labour as a question? The panel's faces said it all -
@C7RKY I didn't, but indiscriminate, racist 'Jim Crow' laws key in America to substituting prison labour (chain gang) for chattel slavery. -
@paulrogers002 Sounds like you've done homework on that? The key for me was numbers. The sheer scale of industry workforce, just 'captured'. -
@C7RKY As ratio of population, US has most imprisoned in world; I think 1/4 Afro-Americans see jail in 'Land of the Free'. -
@paulrogers002 Saw this edited for effect 1st time around, but even without that, it still hits home > http://youtu.be/nPZed8af9RI -
@C7RKY "More 17 year old Black males in prison in America than in college" - prison-produced products also a protected monopoly. -
@paulrogers002 It's shocking when you hear all the facts laid out like that, isn't it? Just instinctively feels wrong, before you even start - 1 more reply
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