Abraham uses Emancipation Proclamation! It's super effective... for about... oh, 10 years.
White Supremacists use Laws to circumvent Emancipation.
Vagrancy laws make it illegal to be unemployed (white business owners who refuse to hire black employees)
Loitering laws make it illegal just to stand around (in particular, to stand in line to vote)
and eventually... laws against recreational drug use (cop walks past white drug dealer to arrest black kid with one joint in his pocket...and a bag of cocaine the cop put in his other pocket). All of these laws will be overwhelmingly applied to persons of colour, and only applied to white people in the most extreme and blatantly criminal examples.
The punishment for breaking most of these early laws is Forced Labor, and TADAAAA!
Everyone who protested against "Slavery" has no sympathy for "Criminals" repaying their "debt to society".
Through the magic of labeling, "Slavery" has been renamed to "Penal Labor" and survives to this day!
White Supremacists use Laws to circumvent Emancipation.
Vagrancy laws make it illegal to be unemployed (white business owners who refuse to hire black employees)
Loitering laws make it illegal just to stand around (in particular, to stand in line to vote)
and eventually... laws against recreational drug use (cop walks past white drug dealer to arrest black kid with one joint in his pocket...and a bag of cocaine the cop put in his other pocket). All of these laws will be overwhelmingly applied to persons of colour, and only applied to white people in the most extreme and blatantly criminal examples.
The punishment for breaking most of these early laws is Forced Labor, and TADAAAA!
Everyone who protested against "Slavery" has no sympathy for "Criminals" repaying their "debt to society".
Through the magic of labeling, "Slavery" has been renamed to "Penal Labor" and survives to this day!