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Sunday, May 6, 2018
Alongside of the Drug War and among the strategies used to persecute Black Americans and poor people is the War Against Poverty. The War Against Poverty is another sinister strategy planned, designed, and implemented by the U.S. government that supposed to clean away poverty, integrate the people, and assure equality of rights but in practice ended up taking away funding from president Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society anti-poverty program and redirected it to law-enforcement, jail and prison construction. Ronald Reagan, both of the Bushes and Clinton administrations together built a Prison Empire that today holds more blacks than the plantation system in the old antebellum South. It is reasonable to conclude that America's perverted Drug War and War Against Poverty in practice constitutes re-enslavement and the forced labor of blacks on prison farms in this country. Indeed, this amounts to another form of slavery!
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