#black codes

👉🏿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes

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How "Southern Hospitality" Is Racist, and Why I Never Call Cops "Sir" Nor “Ma’am” by  Sunn m'Cheaux

For almost a hundred years, the primary purpose of the judicial system was to coerce black people into meeting the labor demands and social customs of the white majority. This created a century-old myth about black criminality that persists to this day. The government of the United States did that, not some slave owners who died over 150 years ago and they arguably continue to do it with the War on Drugs. Joe Biden was instrumental in introducing the modern version of Pig Laws when he was in the Senate. [The USA] went from the Slave Codes and chattel slavery to the Black Codes and neoslavery, which is convict leasing and debt peonage, to the War on Drugs and the prison industrial complex.

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