NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by yellowapple on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:02PM (#15444416)

"and that more black men are restrained by the "criminal justice" system today in the US than were enslaved prior in 1850."

Worth noting that the U.S. population has grown significantly since 1850. I'd be more interested in the relative numbers (e.g. the percentage of black men incarcerated today v. the percentage enslaved before 1850).

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Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by jMyles on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:02PM (#15445287)

It's true that rates of enslavement have decreased since the end of the Civil War. But it's disgusting that our common vernacular talks about an institution that ended over 150 years ago when in fact it is still very much alive and generating enormous profits for the people who choose to exploit it.

If you want straight-up hard numbers, I can't recommend any resource more then DrugWarFacts:

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/chapter/race_prison

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