On: Black cowboys

[psergeant]

Ah, this seems like comparatively a huge reach to me, and I think it does a massive disservice to compare the enslavement of Black Americans to penal servitude, even given the outsized representation of African Americans in the US penal system.

[mcfunk → psergeant]

I would recommend reading The New Jim Crow or watching 13th to better understand the argument and comparison being made.

[papaf → psergeant]

It's the system as it was designed to be. I am surprised that you haven't heard about the prison loophole before. It even gets a powerful scene in the film 'Gone with the Wind'.

[travmatt → psergeant]

I think your argument pretty much ignores a major portion of American history post civil war through at least the 1960’s.