Author: Oswald Mould

Title: New Age Slavery

Below is the thirteen amendment of the US constitution. Please read and understand it.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

It says that slavery or involuntary servitude except as a form of punishment should not exist in the United States. So, I can say slavery was never abolished in the United states if it allows slavery to exist as a form of punishment for a crime. After the emancipation, business in the South was in jeopardy. Because of the end of slavery, southerners now had to pay Black people for their work. Many Southerners were opposed to doing that, so they paid attention to the loophole in the thirteenth amendment which allowed them to continue slavery by the mass incarceration of Black men. If a person has a criminal record they have lost their rights and as per the 13th amendment of the constitution is able to be enslaved. So, began the criminalization of millions of black men.  In the South they were pick up from the streets, any meeting place or gathering and jailed in mass numbers.  While incarcerated and enslaved they built the infrastructure of the South. Sam Cook’s song “Chain Gang” tells a bit of their bitter story but watch any old Southern movie and you will see them dress in their zebra prison garb, chained around their ankles, slaving their lives away building the Southern highways while sheriffs with rifles stand guard. They built Americas’ roads in the South. They laid the tracks for Americas’ railroads there. Now they are still being imprisoned to continued Americas’ secret slavery, Americas’ unpaid labor force.  Today blacks’ makeup are more than forty percent of Americas’ prison population although they are less than 13 percent of her population.

There are more people lock up in US penitentiary than any other country in the world. One quarter or 25 percent of the world prison population is in the USA. One in every four persons in prison in the world is imprisoned in the United States of America. Chinas’ population is more than four times that of the US but they have less people in prison yet the US is always harping about Chinas’ lack of human rights. India’s’ population is almost four times that of the USA and they have less people in their jails. Why is it so different in the USA? The reasons lie in our constant ever changing and ongoing practice of systemic racial oppression against Black people.

Upon watching the Documentary 13th by Ava DuVernay I came to know of the many reasons behind the mass incarceration in the US. Americas’ prison system is a for profit business with millions of shareholders. The more people they have in prison the more money their shareholder makes.  When people are not committing crimes the Justice Department creates reasons to incarcerate people, or create laws to apprehend and imprison innocent law-abiding people. Stop and Frisk was one of those laws. Three strikes you are out, was another and so was the war on crime as well as the war on drugs. This is what capitalism does when it is allowed to influence the justice system.  This is the insidious immoral effect capitalism has and with the dereliction of duty by the Justice Department we have this corrupt system of justice in this nation.  Money, money, money, some people will sell their precious mother, their soul to have money. The end result is that in the USA we have a justice system that now preys on its poor people to fill its prisons so it can make shareholders rich. Such corruption should not exist. They make laws that target these defenseless people. The great majority are black men who have committed non-violent crimes, such as having a minuet quantity of drugs or marijuana in their possession when they were stopped and search by the police. But many also did not commit any crimes. Most were sentenced to mandatory maximum jail time during Americas’ war on drugs.

With the help of the media poor black people were and continued to be dehumanize as super predators, criminals and crack users. So, began their unjust war on drugs, on crime, and on black people. President Nixon to pay for the Southern white vote started the war on crime. President Reagan to pay for the Southern white vote started the war on drugs. President Clinton to pay for the Southern white vote continued both and created the three strikes you are out laws. They all cater to the Southern white voters’ wishes to disenfranchise the Black urban population so as to occupy the white house. How Black are the hearts of those who reside in that resident? All three of these presidents targeted the inner city black communities. They began and continued the mass incarceration of Americas’ young Black population.

Again, all over America the law enforcement went out in great numbers and pick up black people from off the street in great numbers and place them in jail. Most of them waited years to get a trial as they languish in jail, waiting for some public defender because they cannot afford an attorney nor can they afford the bail. Many were coerced to plead guilty to crimes they never committed. Upon being informed by prosecutors if found guilty when tried, they would be sentence to spend the rest of their lives in prison they quickly accepted a guilty plea for a shorter sentence. But that was the whole idea behind the mass incarceration which was to make sure that masses of Black people had a conviction. Instantly they lost their right to vote and all other rights and privileges of citizens of the United States of America.  Such corruption makes me ashamed and angry to be an American. But those presidents sold our rights to the white Southerners to get their votes. Checkmate! They were no checks and balances and no one stood and said that was not right, that is not what America is about.

Today many of the prisoners work from behind bars manufacturing products for major corporations, for what I consider free labor.  Those prisoners make less than two dollars per day.  Many of those companies are well known US corporations with international status. We need to shine the light on them as well as on those in Congress and the Senate who championed the shadowy groups interest to create laws to do such unethical and corrupt deeds. They all should be tried for crimes against humanity.

However, it goes way beyond that. It is no accident that black men and women are being incarcerated in masses, it is a plan to first disenfranchise them and a means to an indirect genocide. If you have been convicted of a crime in the USA you have no right as a citizen. You cannot vote, that may seem meaningless to you when young but it is so important to have the ability to vote. It gives you the ability to make changes in the law and how we are governed. If convicted you will not be able to fight these laws and change them. You will not be able to apply for federal help. You will not be able to get help for tuition if you seek higher education.  You will not be able to get bank loans to start a business. It will be very difficult to get a job or start a career.  That means you cannot support your yourself, your family, or community in any meaningful way. You have become a burden to society, a man or woman without dignity or respect.

The most unethical part of this insidious deed is that it is being implemented in our schools. Police officers are now being placed in our schools as security guards as early as middle schools. So, the act of disenfranchisement of Black people is now earmarked to start with our youth by making them felons before they come of age.  This should not be.  We have to changes these laws and I guarantee you when we do their will be new ones there to replace them but we have to do it. That’s is the way of Jim Crow in the USA. It’s never ending and becomes more insidious in every generation. We must come to recognize it instantly. We must kill it at its roots.

Regarding the indirect genocide, many who are lock away are in their child bearing age and when or if the get out of jail they will be beyond that stage of life. Procreation is almost impossible behind bars. The end result is less black children are being born each year in America causing the Black population to slowly decrease.

With lobbyist ready and willing to represent them, shadowy groups with deep pockets make laws such as “Stand your ground” and legislators who were voted into office by the people are bought by the lobbyist to pass these into laws so doing accomplish the interest of these shadowy groups.  These things are intentionally done to support groups of people who want to see us eliminated from the landscape.

Take time to watch the Netflix documentary 13t by Ava DuVernay and also the Kalief Browder Story. Open your eyes and be awake to what is happening. Do not do anything that will jeopardize your future. Do not get convicted of a crime in the USA. We cannot make any mistake that will leads us to be convicted.

Buy and read my book titled:  America the Beautiful being launched on January 23rd, 2018.