haunting. Yeah. Yeah. Boom. And we're live. What are you doing, Greg? I'm looking up the title of a book I want to talk about.

Which book? It's an audio book and it was about reconstruction. Oh, but we were just talking about with slaves. Yeah. And it was about how, you know, once the,

once the slaves were freed, they still perpetuated slavery by, it's called, I gotta find it, by slavery

by another name by Douglas Blackman and it's about how they would they had they put loitering

laws in all around the country and they would find black people and if they

were standing around they would arrest them or if there was standing around, they would arrest them.

Or if there was like a petty larceny or a domestic violence thing,

they'd arrest them for fucking two years with a trial with one judge and no jury, and the judge was very often a magistrate of the

coal mining company. They'd send the prisoner to a coal mine for two years where he'd work seven days a week with

shackles on and they would fucking whip them.

And if they tried to escape, they tracked them down with dogs and they beat

them sometimes to death. And this went on for fucking decades.

Jesus Christ.

So people talk about, well slavery ended back, no, forms of slavery went on for a long time.

Not only that, slavery ended and what effort was done to sort of rectify the situation?

What effort was done to like try to give even opportunities for people who grew up in African American cities that were

predominantly slaves before 1865.

Yeah.

What's ever been done?

Forty acres in a mule, do they ever get that?

Is that real?

I don't know.

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