"Me pregunto si tendrá algún plan o si estará, como yo, en la desesperación."
- Ernest Hemingway, El Viejo y El Mar (via hachedesilencio)
(via ml-dyy)
A reminder that you can be denied food stamps and other government assistance when you’re a felon. So let’s review this: as a felon you are unable to live in most homes and apartments. As a felon most employers will not hire you. As a felon, you don’t deserve food, low cost medical coverage, or money to help you get your life together.
You were making better money doing what made you a felon and if you have to go back to that I don’t even blame you.
And the government wonders why the amercian prison system is a never ending cycle.
Actually, the government doesn’t wonder. Society does. The government knows that the prison system is designed to create lifelong criminals to fulfill the demand for prisoners, which was created by corporations that profit from prison labor.
Which was a deliberate effort by the United States after the passage of the 13th Amendment, to reenslave Black people to the point where there’s more Black Men in prison than were enslaved in 1850 - 10 years before the Civil War.
I highly suggest watching the documentary Slavery By Another Name. (Its linked in the above comment as well) It comes on PBS and talks about the prisoner leasing system that was used in private industry (by former slave owners) and later by the US government.
(via youwillunderstand)
Suddenly you’re 21 and you’re screaming along in your car to all the songs you used to listen to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different but everything is good