GREAT! Maybe they will learn a trade/experience whereas they can use when they are freed?

Slave labor. People really do not understand or ignore why they have so many African males incarcerated; it provides a way to exploit African men for their labor. Why not give them these OJT JOBS when they are not in jail?

Black people we are ar war, never forget that. Racism = “white” supremacy.

Is anyone surprised? The “British” using black “slave labor” to clean up their dirty messes so they can keep making profits? Can anybody spell “the transatlantic slave trade?”
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Black inmates are part of the new labor force of the future, just like after slavery, black males were charged with nonexistent crimes and put on “chain gangs” as a way of CONTINUING slavery.
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Like i have been warning in many of my posts, if we are NOT careful and mindful of the coming economic changes, those who do NOT know (or understand) the past are DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

@ Toni_Anthony

sister, they are (1) not being paid for their labor, (2) there is nothing to “learn.” You can’t put that on a resume along with your felony conviction for XYZ. (3) BP isn’t trying to help them, it’s exploiting them. That oil spill is TOXIC, sister, and it’s dangerous to do clean up without protective clothing, goggles, and respirators — hence — come the n8ggers inmates, if they get sick, who cares, right?
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we got to start putting our thinking caps on, or we are TOAST as a people
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If that’s a “skilled trade” why not hire the locals who are out of work? Because they don’t want to PAY ANYONE TO DO IT WHEN YOU HAVE FREE SLAVE LABOR

@ Amen-Re

u hit the nail on the head, brother
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a young sister, Michelle Alexander, just published a book called, “The New Jim Crow” that explained how black males are given felony convictions for even the most minor offenses — even when the crime rate goes down — to keep them in a 2nd class status AND exploit their labor (enslave them) just the way the white supremacists have always during since slavery
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what folks don’t understand is — THEY or their loved one, their brother, son, father, cousin, nephew, niece, daughter, mother, wife, etc — could be next
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we better take our heads out of the sand, stop watching all this TV and pretending we live in the same reality that white folk do, and start paying attention to what is really going on..

international law actually bans this kind of labor, however they go around that by paying these inmates like 5 cents a hour. fuk these corporate sc**, they must pay

@ shippper2009

this reminds me of the Haliburton “won” a no-bid government contract to clean up after Hurricane Katrina — Haliburton fired all the black and white locals who were only making $10/hr and trucked in illegals from Mexico, and then the illegals were saying that Haliburton wasn’t paying them all their money or not at all
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my point — if they don’t pay those inmates, who will believe them over some fancy suits from BP and the prison officials who are conspiring with BP (who you can bet got some kind of payoff in exchange for those prisoners)
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corporate america has been exploiting prisoners for decades, and now that they’re hooked (like a crackhead) on cheap slave labor, every worker in america is gonna take the hit via wages that keep getting lower and lower and lower…

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