Randall Robinson...The Reckoning In America, public funds are being used to subsidize a national private prison industry whose growth depends on higher incarceration rates. Said differently, society is subsidizing its own demise for the benefit of private investors. The investors are disproportionately white. The prisoners are disproportionately Black. Inside the new private hells, prisoners toil for private companies, earning but a pittance while undercutting the wages of non-prison labor. Owing to the extremely low wages for prison labour, the companies that employ prisoners constitute, not surprisingly, still another new growth industry. Towards this modern bondage, down this human cattle chute, Black males from birth are being herded willy-nilly before our very eyes. It is this new de facto slavery that benefits the same private interests, transmogrified, that its predecessor institution benefited centuries before. Oprah has escaped this & provided quality education for hundreds of American young men so that they too can escape the planned destruction that awaited them....and still we rise.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:16:49 +0000
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