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Not every white person had a house either, and if they didnt then their family ended up losing a lot of compound growth, and ended up poorer as they payed somebody elses mortgage. What really happened I think is the lack of class mobility due to the financialization of everything, due to unlimited money printing and corporate bailouts.

The average mortgage was 7 years historically and somebody saving a ton could pay it off in under 5 years, instead of the massive 30 year loans backed by the govenment we have now. Its like as we got richer and more productive we simultaneously became poorer and can barely house ourselves, as food quality got cheaper with shrinkflation and industrialization.

Since when was 2000 onward the pinnacle of equality? This image is dog shit

Each time I see this I notice that it's always lacking the end of redlining.

--> 1619.

Nobody goning to talk about that date? Lol

Primus~ "Welp, no more slaves unless they are serving time in prison. It's a bummer."

Secundus~ "Well, let's put them in prison."

Primus~ "BRILLIANT"

There were news stories as recent as 2012 about schools in the south being segregated. There are still sundown towns. Segregation only ended on paper.

Redlining went through to the 70s

Yeah, no. Segregation magically ending in 1954? The Civil Rights struggles of the 60s didn't happen? Redlining and Ghettoizing of Black communities? Destruction of Black families by mass incarceration of Black males and forcing families to stay apart to collect benefits, while vilifying single Black mothers as "welfare queens"? We have never, ever been in the green.

What is the US prison system but slavery with extra steps?

Slavery is still legal in the US as per the 13th amendment.

The yellow should be orange and the green should be yellow and labeled "carcereal slavery"

The civil rights act is from 1964, so even shorter time than the picture shows.

Did slavery actually end? i mean you work 9-5 sometimes with unpaid overtime, you get unpaid PTO, you don't get any health insurance, you don't have enough to save something for retirement and you live paycheck to paycheck so it's slavery embellished with being called "work".

I'd actually really like to see a graph showing incarceration as a different category of slavery. Maybe have like like total slavery as one line then the different forms of slavery as other lines. I'd like to think total slavery is at least going down, but it'd be good to see how far we have to go and over what periods we've lost ground.

If you count incarceration

We do. It is specifically and explicitly an exception in the US Constitution:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Remember that some places were forced to desegregate in the 1990s.

What’s special about 1619 to be considered the start of American slavery?

Is this that weird credit score indicator thingy that people post every once in a while?

And let's not forget "... WiTH aLl DeLiBErATe sPeEd!"