Black mother allegedly shoplifts and gets shot and killed in front of her two children after an officer opened fire shooting into her vehicle, which the children were in at the time, all on suspicion. Her name was Shelley Frey. The family has spoken out saying “she didn’t deserve to die”.
Rich white woman steals loads of clothing and ends up with community service and even her employer said they would continue “to value highly her association with Warburg Realty”. Also, she was not shot and killed.
Tayjha Deleveaux, a student at C.R. Walker Senior High School in Nassau, Bahamas, was allegedly suspended from school with several other girls earlier this month. Tayjha’s mother took to Facebook to air her grievances and now people from all over the world are taking to social media to show their support. What’s even more confusing is the school’s explanations for their actions.
Louisiana State Penitentiary, otherwise known as ‘Angola Prison’, to this day compels prisoners to plant and pick cotton by hand, for as little as 4 cents an hour. Eighty percent of its prisoners are African-American.
Long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun while armed guards, mostly white, ride up and down the rows on horseback, keeping watch.
It is the largest maximum security prison in America, bigger than Manhattan, sprawling over 18,000 acres of farmland dotted with barbed-wire enclosures, gun towers and concrete dormitories.
A History of Slavery
The land on which the prison sits is a composite of several slave plantations -it is called Angola, after the homeland of the slaves who first worked its soil – bought up in the decades following the Civil War. From when it was converted from plantations, prisoners have worked the land in much the same way as slaves did, under conditions so brutal, prisoners resorting to cutting their own Achilles’s tendons in protest in the 50′s.
After the plantation was converted to a prison, former plantation overseers and their descendants kept their general roles, becoming prison officials and guards. This white overseer community, is located on the farm’s grounds, both close to the prisoners and completely separate from them. In addition to their prison labour, Angola’s inmates do free work for these residents, from cutting their grass to trimming their hair to cleaning up Prison View Golf Course, the only course in the country where players can watch prisoners labouring as they golf.
Harsh Conditions
Angola prisoners technically work eight-hour days. However, since extra work can be mandated as a punishment for “bad behaviour", it’s common for Angola prisoners to work 65 hours a week after disciplinary reports have been filed, with guards often writing out reports well in advance, fabricating incident citations, then filling in prisoners’ names, sometimes at random.
“Guards talked to prisoners like slaves,” says former prisoner Robert King who spent 29 years at Angola, until he was released in 2001 after proving his innocence. “Prisoners worked out in the field, sometimes 17 hours straight, rain or shine.”
4 Cents per Hour for Backbreaking Work
Wages for agricultural and industrial prison labour are still almost non-existent compared with the federal minimum wage. Angola prisoners are paid anywhere from four to twenty cents per hour, with agricultural labourers falling on the lowest end of the pay scale.
On top of that, prisoner’s keep only half the money they make. The other half is placed in an account for prisoners to use to “set themselves up” after they’re released. However, due to some of the harshest sentencing practices in the country, 97% of Angola prisoners will never be released and so most will never get the other half.
A Common Occurrence
Angola is not alone. Sixteen percent of Louisiana prisoners are compelled to perform farm labour. Because of harsh mandatory minimum sentences, in Louisiana, writing bad checks can earn you up to 10 years in jail, a two-time car burglar can get 24 years without parole, a trio of drug convictions will get someone a life sentence, all of which time prisoners can be forced to work in conditions that mirror those supposedly outlawed 150 years ago.
Despite this system of modern slavery, Angola’s labour system does not break the law. In fact, it is explicitly authorized by the Constitution. The 13th Amendment, which prohibits forced labour, contains a caveat. It reads, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”
Prisoners can be forced to work for the government against their will, and this is true in every state
As long as this system stands they will never let anyone go. What is abolished in the yesteryear will be renewed in the next under a new name.
what the FUUUUUUUCK
They do this at Cummins Unit here in Arkansas too
For 4¢ an hour? I just ran the numbers: If you worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, in a six year prison sentence (something like 22000 hours), you would walk out the door with….
$898.56
That’s bullshit. Prison work programs are fucking sick.
NOTE: This is the original, one-and-only Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). The historic one. The one founded in the U. S. in 1966 by Dr. Huey P. Newton, a university trained political scientist and community activist.
the BPP was NOT EVER “the black version of the kkk” in any way shape or form
anyone who compares the BPP to the kkk is displaying their TOTAL IGNORANCE of U.S. history
stop letting people who compare the BPP to the kkk go unchallenged!
the only thing that this BPP shares with the “New Black Panther Party” is the name, some of the visual stylings, and the promotion of the validity of armed SELF-DEFENSE for Black people that the founding members of the New Black Panther Party lifted as a result of them being “inspired by” the original. Their core missions are different. Their approaches are different. THEIR COMMUNITY WORK AND EVIDENCE THEREOF ARE DIFFERENT. And the list goes on. If you want to know what some of the original leadership of the BPP thinks about being compared to the New Black Panther Party… Google it.
stop letting people who confuse the BPP with the New Black Panther Party go unchallenged!
THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN EXIST SOLELY TO UPHOLD WHITE SUPREMACY AND TO BOOST THE FRAGILE EGOS OF IGNORANT, NON-COMPETITIVE POOR WHITE TRASH.
THE CHRISTIAN KNIGTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING REDEEMING FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. INCLUDING THE POOR WHITE TRASH AND RACIST KKKOPS WHO COMPRISE MOST OF ITS ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP.
IN SPITE OF ALL THE TURMOIL SUFFERING AND DEATH WREAKED UPON BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA
AT THE HANDS OF WHITE PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EVER STOOPED SO LOW AS TO FORM AN ORGANIZATION THAT EXISTS SOLELY TO TERRORIZE AND MURDER WHITE PEOPLE. WE SIMPLY ARE BETTER HUMAN BEINGS THAN THAT, SO WHITE PEOPLE STOP YOUR FUTILE SEARCH FOR BLACK PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOTTEN AS LOW DOWN ON THE LADDER OF HUMANITY AS YOU ALL HAVE: THEY DON’T EXIST. WE DON’T EXIST. WE’RE SIMPLY BETTER HUMAN BEINGS IN THAT REGARD.
“But… but… People of color can’t be in Agent Carter because they were only ever maids and janitors back in the day! Historical accuracy! HISTORICAL ACCURACY!!!”
Shit…John Boyega, Jessie Williams, Idris Elba, could play any of these men.
My great uncle was a Tuskegee airman. He’s still alive, actually, he’s a cardiologist in Texas I believe.
They don’t quote Malcolm as much because the truth hurts.
Maybe hes not quoted due to the fact that MLK promoted tolerance, equality and to my mind what MLK was fighting for was positive. Malcom X was a black supremacist, wanted the separation of Blacks and Whites, and rejected the civil rights movement. Promoting Malcom X is literally as bad as promoting the KKK. And as a fact of history Nazi Germany’s failure was due to starting a war on too many fronts, i.e with the Russians, and not their aryan views.
white ignorance knows no bound. NO BOUNDS… malcomn x is as bad as the kkk who was KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR COLOR. okay…?
one more time…
because if you’re taught that the man who said that black people should DEFEND themselves against people (including the kkk) who literally hunt them down and kill them only because they are a different race are the same, you too far gone to be saved.
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