Slavery Is Not an Internship

You ever notice how some people talk about slavery like it was just an unpaid internship?

Like, oh, no, it wasn't oppression, it was on-the-job

training. Buddy, if your internship involves chains, whips and generational

trauma, that's not a resume builder, that's a crime scene. These folks will

really say, "Well, they learned valuable skills." Valuable skills?

What skills? Surviving brutality? Enduring forced labor? Becoming experts

at staying alive in a system designed to kill them? That's not a skillset, that's a miracle.

And then they hit you with the classic, "It was a different time." Yeah,