The 13th amendment didn't free the slaves, it turned everyone into slaves.
It isn't really about race, the distribution we find in prison,
it is actually about children raised in single mother households.
Children who grew up without a father in the home.
When you account for that, race goes away.
And we find whites the fastest growing prison population.
The single mother, welfare recipient was just started in the black communities.
(to get welfare, the father had to not be in the house)
and now it is spreading.
Destroy the families, destroy the society.
Turn prisons into an private industry, and these prison corporations demand more prisoners. Got to keep the free labor flowing.
The private prisons argument always struck me as flawed in many ways. An industry reliant on government monopoly grants may be in private hands through corporate structures, but it is not a creation of free market forces. Further, the incarceration rate is not caused by these prisons, regardless of contractual occupancy rate agreements.
As for prison labor, I could see it as a just way for criminals to earn their way to restitution and fund their room and board, but it is absolutely a slave labor system in disguise today. And it can certainly be argued that the "justice" system exists to fill it now over 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation.
And as for the Constitution, I'm not a fan in the first place aside from the Bill of Rights amended to it later.
I prefer the Articles of Confederation, which were later replaced in a coups with the Constitution, with the Bill of Rights thrown in as a sop to stop the kvetching of the losers.
It's about time these social engineers get their heads out of collage, and learn some real history.
Thanks keep at it!