And dwelled on.
And what happened before that too, for how long, and then before that for how long.
Good job, colonialism. /s
But no, seriously, good job civil rights campaigns. We're not done yet.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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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.
Even slavery is still around.
Hell, there were (are still?) segregated schools up until around 2000. I know at least one wasn't set to desegregate until sometime in the 90s.
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while vilifying single Black mothers as “welfare queens”?
You forgot the "best" part: poor people renting apartments end up subsidizing wealthier people living in single-family homes, because suburban sprawl doesn't generate enough tax revenue per acre to fund the infrastructure and services it consumes. The white middle-class bigots doing the vilifying are, themselves, the real welfare queens!
Yeah, wtf. Martin Luther King got shot in 68. They just forgot to tell him that all is well for 14 years?
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What is the US prison system but slavery with extra steps?
there aren't even really extra steps considering slavery is perfectly legal in prisons according to the constitution
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The yellow should be orange and the green should be yellow and labeled "carcereal slavery"
I was going to comment something along these lines with the war on drugs, but legal slavery for imprisoned persons is a huge part of why the war on drugs was pursued and persists.
The civil rights act is from 1964, so even shorter time than the picture shows.
And after that, VRA, loving vs Virginia, fair housing act. Ending segregation was a gradual process that, by many metrics, still isn’t complete, but any date before 1964 or 1968 is a big fat lie.
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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.
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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.
Well, American slavery never actually ended, we just call.it prison labor now. Segregation only really ended on paper. It's become less prominent I guess, but it's not gone.
Remember that some places were forced to desegregate in the 1990s.
What’s special about 1619 to be considered the start of American slavery?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia
In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort, near the Jamestown colony, on a British privateer ship flying a Dutch flag.
It was when enslaved African people were first brought to Jamestown. Exactly when the start is more broadly is kind of harder to say since some things are more disputed
The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.
https://www.history.com/articles/american-slavery-before-jamestown-1619
It’s when England began colonizing the americas. Which is kind of arbitrary since there were slaves in the Americas before that and the founding of The United States of America was over 100 years later.
Green is incarceration and wage slavery
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.
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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"
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".
This is a dumb take. The horrors of capitalism aren't the same as the horrors of slavery.
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Not to split hairs on moral grounds, but shouldnt it be english slavery up until at least the revolutionary war started?
While the Brits outlawed slavery around 1830s for themselves, they had no problem loading slaves onto their ships and smuggling them to the Americas for a good while after. Plus they openly supported the Confederacy throughout the Civil War to keep the cotton rolling in. And of course we don't need to mention colonialism that lasted until after WW2 now, do we? Of course the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Germans also colonized every inch of some else's dirt to exploit them back to the Stone Age. And there was little hesitation to kill any and all that objected the "civilizing" effect of European influence.
And slavery is ongoing even as we speak in certain parts of this world. But we do nothing and care little about that. As long as they keep it on the down low we need not be overly concerned.
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