This is a very racist society I'm in. It's pretty shocking what has happened in the last roughly thirty years with regard to African Americans, which is very similar to what that this describes in the late nineteenth century. Remember what happened this. The Constitutional amendment after the security after the Civil war. We're supposed to free African - American slaves. It did something for about ten years. Then there was a north - South compact, which essentially granted that the former slave owning states the right to do whatever they want and what they did was criminalized black life and all kinds of ways that created a kind of slave for. In fact, one of the most interesting books on it that was Blackmun's. Is called worse than slavery. Didn't like that. It threw most mostly black males, but also women into jail, where they become a perfect labor force. Much better than slaves. If you're a slave owner, you have to pay. We have to keep your capital alive. If the state dilatory, it's terrific. No strikes, no disobedience perfectly. Reforms a lot of the American Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century based on that which I. Pretty much lasted until the Second World War, when there was a need for what's called free labor in the war industry. After that come about two two decades, in which which African - Americans had kind of a shot at entering the society. The black worker get a job in an auto plant. The unions were still functioning. Maybe buy a small house and somebody's get to college or something. By the nineteen seventies or eighties, it's going back to criminalization of black life. It's called the drug war, which is a racist war. Ronald Reagan was an XSD stream, racist, denied, and the whole drug war so cold is designed from policing up to them, eventual release from prison to make it impossible for the black male community and more and more women and more and more Hispanics, Hispanics, to be part of the society. In fact, if you. If you look at American history, the first slaves came and sixteen, nineteen, half a millennium. There have been about three or four decades in which African - Americans had a limited degree of freedom. You know it's not entirely, but at least some. Of course, it's for. For black elites, there's some privileges. But I'm talking about the mass of the population, which is being. Which has been recriminate, honest, and incidentally also turned into a slave labor force. This prison labor, for example, Well, this is American history to break out of that is no small trading. In fact, we take a look at the election, say the last election. In many ways it's a civil war of the Red States. The Confederacy extension will. Beyond that. That's pretty much what it is. And of course this. This is a real battle. These two founding crimes, slavery, and extermination of the indigenous population there very much with us. Take a look at Indian reservations. Today's not a pretty sight. This is very share believe, inspire blacks be.