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Again love me, normally.

#just posting banger after banger oh my gosh #will wood #love me normally #god damn #fire art as always

My second father.

#THIS IS SO FREAKING FIRE #im so inlove with the background and how its reminiscent of will woods art #ughh the little shine on his eyeglasses #MR BOY ON BIS SHOULDER!!!!#Atleadt i think thats mr boy #THIS IS AWESOME THE PERSPECTIVE IS SICK TOOOOO #wait im actually obssessed with this im admiring #will wood #fire art #my fav

freakazoiyde

@angelwishess Shut up

angelwishess

yro’ue*

freakazoiyde

STOP BARKING

@angelwishess Shut up

niggazinmoscow

THIS RIGHT HERE

afronerdism

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.