“Time to celebrate their monumental athletic achievements by pointing out all their minor mistakes.”
The meme below was during the Covid shutdown of 2020. Hugs
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-12-2026
The meme below was during the Covid shutdown of 2020. Hugs
Scottie's Playtime 
Convict labor has always been slave labor; id it right there in the first goddamned sentence:
The first thing that was done after Reconstruction was overthrown were legislatures passing laws to make it illegal for a black man to be unemployed.
This is hardly new. Prisons are the modern Plantations.
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Yep. They picked up with prison labor in the South right after slavery was abolished. That was memorialized in the book, “Gone With The Wind,” even.
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Hi Bruce. I agree with both you and Ali. My question is for both of you, what do we do to get the situation changed. Especailly with this surge in racism and the tRump adminstration making racism acceptable to so many. The idea that the worst racism is against white people is horrendous. The forcing of so many institutions and so many companies to abandon DEI policies which were not discriminating against white people but trying to level a very slanted playing field that favored white people. I want to figure out how to fix what is clearly a serious problem. Then I can push for it. But the issue is for profit prisons which lobby hard with big money cash for racist legislators at both the state and federal levels. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated. Hugs
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The things to do are generally not something regular people want to make themselves do. Primarily, file and run for state office and work against privatization of what should be government services. I’m writing this because we here are all old enough that running is not feasible for us to do (presuming, anyway, about BDR, though if I lived where he lives, I’d walk neighborhoods, write postcards, phone bank, and vote for him. I’d do it for Scottie, too.) But, even as older people, we can still recruit candidates, educate them about this (and other!) issues, then get them elected.
Anyway, yes, private prison companies lobby with lots of money. But we the people still have our voices, and it’s our money that the private prisons are profiting from: they are paid from our state treasuries. So, our own lobbying makes a difference. However, it is pretty late in the game at this point. If anybody has an already-organized group working against funding private prisons, go to work with them. Organizing one in the absence of such an organization is not as big a job as it sounds like it might be, but one needs to be motivated to do it. Privatization has been allowed for so long, it’s a long uphill dig to chip away at it.
So, recruiting candidates, educating them about this issue, and then getting them elected is likely the easiest way to fight.
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