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Black Americans have been trying to talk about US prisons in the framework of legalized slavery for decades, and nothing has been done. They have spoken about the over-policing of black people as a pipeline to that legalized slavery. They have also spoken about the systematic disenfranchisement of especially black men by this process. They have spoken about the financial incentives of this whole sector.

And since hardly anything has been done, by either party, to address this, the US already has in place the legal framework and physical infrastructure for what has the potential to be the most efficient and profitable genocide in generations.

It seems to me that the progressive side of white America never fully understood what “defund the police”, “police abolition”, “prison reform”, “bail reform” or “black lives matter” were fundamentally about. And now I’m afraid it’s too late.