Ep 47: The 13th Amendment...” Started PPL & Loopholes

Prison Pipelines / Loopholes... terms overstated today by many who evaluate systems...What systems exactly? THE controversial topic is outlined by B Daht in this episode. A CONVERSATION IS STARTED ON HOW many elements that begin with the 13th amendment, affect us today. GENERATIONAL REACTIONS to intentional planning. And MORE IMPORTANTLY, a reflection of what now and next...

B Daht takes a moment to start a conversation rooted in historical fact.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Let's talk about how the thirteenth Amendment pretty much created
the prison pipeline. I didn't know, you didn't I didn't know.
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the Thirteenth Amendment, it was supposed to abolish slavery, and

(00:23):
in theory it did. But in eighteen sixty six, a
year after the amendment was ratified, states like Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee,
and of course go to Old South Cacilaki began to
lease how convicts for labor. So basically it means if
you was locked up, they could lease you out to
people on plantations, a revisit to slavery. So of course

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this made the business of arresting black folks very lucrative.
Hundreds of white men hired by the states as what
we call police officers today. Their primary responsibility to search
out and arrest black people who are in violations of
the Black codes. Now, see that's where stuff gets tricky,
and I see the Black codes with very petty situations
that were normally legal, but if a black person did it,

(01:07):
it was illegal and justification to lock your black ass up.
For example, in Louisiana, it was illegal for a black
man to preach to black congregations without special permission in
writing from the president of the police. Now be clear
on those plantations, many of oppressing them would allow enslaved
black folks to be preachers on their plantations to the

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rest of the black folks if they were preaching from
the passages that oppressing them hands selected. You know, like
Ephesian six five say slaves, be obedient to your human masters.
In South Carolina, if the parent of a black child
was considered vagrant and vagrant man and had nowhere to
go and had no job, like look like they're homeless
and they wandering from place to place. Now, if someone

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viewed a child to be vagrant, the judicial system allowed
the police to apprentice that child to an employer. Pretty much,
take that child and give them to somebody to work for.
So basically, if you're a single mom, you at work,
your child just happened to be walking up the street
going to kick it with some friends might not have
on their best attire, because let's just be honest, you

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can't afford it. And somebody says, hey, that child looks vagrant.
Your baby saying, ain't vagrant my mom at work? Don't
matter a scoopers little ass or prompto you go downtown
to make a fuss about it. Why is this disorderly conduct?
Black coat? Now you am man man locked up headed
to somebody's plantation to get him a bunch of free labor.
And I told you the black coaches or a series

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of laws, criminal laws, illegal activity for black folk, and
through the enforcement of those laws, they could be in prison. Man.
It said. After the passing of the thirteenth Amendment, more
than eight hundred thousand black people were part of that
system of reenslavement through the prison system. I always heard
the thirteenth Amendment free the slaves. But have you ever
read the thirteenth Amendment? It reads in our quote, neither

(02:55):
slavery nor involuntary servitude comma except as a punishment for
crime wherever the parties shall have been duly convicted. Comma
shall exist within the United States or any place subject
to their jurisdiction. See the problem is the space between
the commas except as punishment for crime wherever the party

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shall have been duly convicted. And dare I say that
was the invention of the loophole. Thirteenth Amendments say there
will be no slavery lessons punishment, seeing that punishment is prison,
there are your enslaved individuals. The third teenth Amendment only
introduced a new form of slavery. Then there were laws
put in place to ensure the black folks remain slaves,
and of course profits still being made off that free labor.

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And now that same system is what we call the
criminal justice system today. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
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