Matthew 11:28~30
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| "“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people. " —Assata (via michellehuxtable) I tell my students this every single semester. (via notesofanativesister) FBI’s most wanted for terrorism, everyone. (via so-treu) | "A system that values obedience over curiosity isn’t education and it definitely isn’t science."—Florida Teen Tried With Felony For Trying Science A beautiful rant about misguided public science education and how the fear of punishment kills curiosity, especially for minorities because they tend to receive harsher punishments, and for the poor because punishments end up being harsher on them when something like bail ends up putting their families even farther in debt. (via kindofamenace) In regards to 16 year old Kiera Wilmot’s case, there is a petition going around to drop the charges against her: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot (via gender-and-science) |
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