Jolly Good Ginger

My question is, when was it not?

My question is, when did the federal police, the federal penitentiary system become the federal penitentiary system?

1866, right after they freed Black people under the 13th Amendment, which said you can still be a slave or a voluntary servant if you're found guilty of a crime.

And then in 1866, they passed the vagrancy laws.

And vagrancy laws said that if you were loitering or didn't have a job, that you were committing a crime.

And the only people that were loitering and didn't have jobs were newly freed Black people because the vagrancy laws targeted Black people so we can make you a criminal so that under the 13th Amendment, I can make you a slave again.

And then overseers became officers, shout out to KRS-One.

And now slave patrols became foot patrols.

They became the downtown city police.

I ask you, when has America not been a police state?

America has always been a police state that was aimed at policing non-white communities to support white supremacy and poor white communities with collateral damage.

Also, I can recommend a couple of books.

The Color of Law is a great book.

Talks about why our laws are racist.

White Fear, amazing book.

Roland Martin wrote that, great book.

Listen, there's a lot of good books out there.

Read them.

They don't want you to read them.

Sorry, I got started now.