Many say America is the land of dreams. If you want a chance at a better life, come to America to pursue your dreams of being rich and having a great life. As much as I love America, it was also built from the blood of many slaves, Native Americans, and poor whites. Some trying to pursue the American dream and some forced to build the American dream. What those immigrants, children of slaves, and poor whites, didn’t know is that they would be the fuel of the American economy. They could have never known that, because of the color of their skin, the language they spoke, or their finical status would make them great candidates for modern day slavery. (“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
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Many whites looked at that as an opportunity to keep a race of people they didn’t like behind bars. In return they would receive labor, prisoners would make anywhere from 1 cent a day to 75 cent a day. Once incarcerated prisoners make license plates, furniture, cloths, safety equipment and States makes money from them. It’s no deferent from the slaves picking cotton. The war on drugs is one of the key weapons that white American uses against a young black male. Young black males are more likely to sell or distribute drugs then white males. White males have better opportunity of getting a good paying job because of the color of their skin. Where young black males get turned down because the color of their skin. So what happens when you have a young man that needs to make money quick to feed his family. He turns to drugs, stealing, committing robberies to feed his family, because there are no jobs that pay enough. Blacks are getting arrest for selling marijuana and receiving 5 to 15 years in prison. Compared to their white counterpart which committed the same crime received minimum sentence (Graham,
Many whites looked at that as an opportunity to keep a race of people they didn’t like behind bars. In return they would receive labor, prisoners would make anywhere from 1 cent a day to 75 cent a day. Once incarcerated prisoners make license plates, furniture, cloths, safety equipment and States makes money from them. It’s no deferent from the slaves picking cotton. The war on drugs is one of the key weapons that white American uses against a young black male. Young black males are more likely to sell or distribute drugs then white males. White males have better opportunity of getting a good paying job because of the color of their skin. Where young black males get turned down because the color of their skin. So what happens when you have a young man that needs to make money quick to feed his family. He turns to drugs, stealing, committing robberies to feed his family, because there are no jobs that pay enough. Blacks are getting arrest for selling marijuana and receiving 5 to 15 years in prison. Compared to their white counterpart which committed the same crime received minimum sentence (Graham,