When the reporter persisted, Decker explained that her father—a preacher born around 1933, according to the Courier Journal, or 68 years after slavery was outlawed—was “born into poverty” and worked for free with his family on the property they lived on. (It’s unclear whether the adults were paid, though the Courier Journal notes that it sounds more like “Decker’s father was forced by his parents to do chores” and that the family were tenant farmers.)

“My dad had to do chores when he was growing up 😭😭” - KY State Rep. Jennifer Decker

Yeah, because growing up poor and being a slave are the same. WTF is wrong with these people?

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 🤡

I’ve never heard a black person say “My father was a slave”, because it’s fucking 2024, what the hell?

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?

🤡

Admitting that you think poor people are slaves isn’t the flex you think it is you feckless bag of hair.

Karl Marx agrees.

So what is the term of the child of an indentured servant?

What exactly is a dirt farm?