Dred Scott 2020

 Punitive drug laws permit the mass incarceration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans. Drug use itself, nevertheless, continues unabated.

Restrictive immigration laws permit the abuse, caging, and torture of newcomers. US industries themselves, nevertheless, continue to hire millions of workers without documents.

Is there a connection between these apparently unrelated puzzles? Why, yes, there is:

• Criminalizing all these people creates two immense classes of workers who can be underpaid and abused with impunity.

• Criminalizing all these people creates two immense classes of Americans who are barred from voting to end their own exploitation.

White supremacy is both a business model and a governing plan for racial capitalism.

A Louisiana corrections officer oversees incarcerated men working the fields at Angola State Farm.

Not 1815. 

Not 1915. 

2015.