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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6682912
My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP
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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
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.
I’d also like to add that slavery was never outlawed in the US, and is still used to this day.
It was…
…EXCEPT…
When the exception makes the rule lol.
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’allTM!”
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.
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.
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?
