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Originally posted by detoxed
So you picked cotton? Weird I thought that stopped long before you were born. I bet you want reparations too?
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Actually it continued into the 1970's. My mom pointed it out to me in the south. It was called the "chain gang". It worked like this...get arrested for walking through the wrong neighborhood and then get on the chain gang and pick cotton for the rest of your life. If the goverment needed some labor they just sent the cops out to round up people.