13th (2016)
Dir. Ava DuVernay
If you’ve haven’t seen this yet, you need to.
It’s really important to know that trespassing and vagrancy laws in the US were more or less made up entirely for this purpose. Until we hit on the idea of rent-a-prisoners as replacements for slave labor, it wasn’t illegal to just hang out in public not doing anything, or wander through someone’s yard on your way somewhere else, or to camp on public land.
The very first known enslaved black person in the US was an indentured immigrant named John Punch. We know his name. Indentured labor at the time was either a financial arrangement people either entered into willingly or was a sentence for a crime. Punch and two white men were laborers who attempted to flee their service and were caught. The two white dudes had their sentence extended by one year. Punch was sentenced to a life of servitude.
It started with prison and it’s come back to prison. It’s still prison. This is still happening. It’s not over.
If this picture doesn’t make you want to vomit I don’t know what to do with you.
You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.
alright I’m not sure how this works but here we go. so my friend saw this post:
and didn’t think much of it until she got a text saying the very thing the post was warning about.
SHE’S 14 GOD DAMN YEARS OLD. PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SIGNAL BOOST THIS! THAT LINK COULD POTENTIALLY BE DANGEROUS. PLEASE SHARE THIS AND PLEASE, PLEASE BE SAFE & CAREFUL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
i got one of these, please stay safe everyone! i had never even heard of this app before and so i ignored it on my principle that only saved contacts get responses, but keep safe you guys!!
oh my god, I got one of these too. i was very confused by it so i didnt click the link or anything but please stay safe everyone!!
I got one too??? I ignored it thank god
I literally got one of these last week. This shit too wild
getlemen-society