Weed is illegal and minorities get arrested for it more because Nixon wanted to create more felons to stop people from voting for Democrats. Because in his view mostly only hippies and minorities smoked weed or used other hallucinogens, and those people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
The slavery is a bonus, but that was the real reason.
Tinfoil hat time: is he manufacturing an economic crisis to return slavery? SCOTUS has already said prisoners don’t have to be paid for work performed
Just to be clear: the 13th Amendment says that prisoners don’t have to be paid for work performed.
Why do you think the prison industrial complex exists
Why do you think they make shit like weed illegal and why do you think they arrest minorities for it in greater numbers than white people
What did you think “white privilege” meant? Not getting nervous looks from a Starbucks barista?
America is a slaver state, always has been.
Murca: land of the free!
Also Murca: more in prison than any other country
Weed is illegal and minorities get arrested for it more because Nixon wanted to create more felons to stop people from voting for Democrats. Because in his view mostly only hippies and minorities smoked weed or used other hallucinogens, and those people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
The slavery is a bonus, but that was the real reason.
Return? Legal slavery never ended.
I wouldn’t put it past him. We have massive potash reserves, but no stockpiles. Someone’s got to dig it up and refine it.
This isn’t the 1940’s. Mines are highly mechanized. This would be moronic, and achieve a much lower output than employing skilled workers.
So it’s definitely their plan, then