Jolly Good Ginger

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.

Right, right, right.

No, okay, let me say four things real quick.