r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 2d ago
West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html2.8k
u/Different-Estate747 2d ago
So their defense is that they can't be bad people because they adopted 5 black children?
Yeah... we know you adopted 5 black children. And unfortunately we know why you adopted 5 black children too.
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u/Floomby 2d ago
Imagine going through the whole adoption process and in your mind you're like, "Cool, free slaves."
They were doing fieldwork. These people had a literal plantation going on.
But hey, they liked living in a locked shed with no food or hygiene facilities.
Lemme guess, I bet they were homeschooled. Can't let the gubmint corrupt our children now, can we.
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u/zeek215 2d ago
The amount of premeditation this involved… those people need to be in jail for life.
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u/SortedChaos 2d ago
The adoption process is pretty extensive in terms of screening so they had to lie non-stop in order to get through that.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 2d ago
It's very possible they didn't go through normal channels but a private org that is able to place kids out of foster care and is paid to do so, therefore all home checks are on the private organization and those are hit and miss. Foster care is overwhelmed and they outsource the kids in some locales.
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u/SortedChaos 2d ago
I saw a documentary once about "rehoming" kids. This is when someone adopts a kid but for whatever reason decides later they don't want them anymore. There are orgs that will link you up with a new foster parent. Apparently, this processes has little/no vetting (it's a big problem) so abusers are rampant there.
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u/Psychological_Fish37 1d ago
Also there are not enough people who are able to be foster parents and heed the calling. Its the same with good social workers, there should be better ways to reward foster parents and social workers, then with more money in the foster system, we make sure there is better vetting, accountability.
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u/PrincessNakeyDance 2d ago
Adopted and/or homeschooled children should have social worker that they see on their own a few times a year. They should also have the ability to email/call/text at any point through out the year and be able to have an open line of communication. Though not that the second part would have helped here.
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u/MVRKHNTR 2d ago
Can you imagine the reaction from conservatives if any part of what you're suggesting was even casually mentioned by any representative?
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u/turquoise_amethyst 2d ago
If you sent them to a public school, they’d eventually learn about emancipation…. Maybe. Depending on the school district/state.
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u/bennitori 2d ago
And to think, some people want education about slavery and the history behind it removed from school curriculum. Like we should let entire generations worth of kids not understand why this is especially abhorrent or what it means.
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u/Apprehensive_Look94 2d ago
Happened to me and my siblings too. In fact, I once had some of my other siblings dress in overall and straw hats while barefoot as we did our yard work in the hot sun just to see the reactions from neighbors driving by. Interestingly, my white siblings never had to lift a finger 🤔
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u/brookelynfd 2d ago edited 2d ago
According to this USA Today article his lawyer really tried to imply this was all a misunderstanding and the teens like it. Smh
”During the June 11 arraignment hearing, Whitefeather's attorney, Mark Plants, called the barn where the 14 and 16-year-old were found locked in a “teenage clubhouse”
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u/stdexception 2d ago
Being a defense attorney for these cases must be tough. They are obligated to defend them as best as they can, even if the evidence is overwhelming. Pleading insanity might have been a better call, though.
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u/QuitWhinging 2d ago
Yeah, even the scum of the Earth deserve to have some kind of legal representation; otherwise, the system becomes even more unfair than it already is, and innocent people begin to suffer alongside the guilty. I'm not in criminal defense, but I am a defense attorney who has had to defend people I strongly disagree with, and it's definitely tough because you have to come up with some argument in their defense, even if it's not necessarily a good one. And you have to work with your clients' wishes. I imagine these two are not the best clients. They easily could have rejected the first few arguments the defense attorney would have offered up before arriving at this one.
As far as I know, pleading insanity isn't always a great strategy either. It rarely works (especially if your clients are bad actors, which most people are) and, even when successful, people often spend more time locked up in a mental hospital than they would have spent in prison. Prison at least offers a fairly definite sentence; a mental hospital keeps you until they decide that you're healthy, which may never happen.
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u/lonnie123 2d ago
I was under the impression you couldn’t outright lie though. Provided the best defense means making sure the prosecution was following the rules of evidence, the cops did their job properly, trying to get the best deal you can… but you can’t just bullshit and hope you fool the judge.
See: trumps lawyers for all his election cases. In public he says it was all rigged and stolen, in court they explicitly say that’s not their case and they are just trying to have XYZ looked at to see if it followed the law
If these kids are found in the barn chained up and said they were kidnapped basically, you can’t just lie and say they wanted to be there because it was their clubhouse
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u/AshleyNeku 2d ago
It's a little more complicated than that. You can't lie as to the facts, but a state of mind is not treated as a fact of evidence. He's suggesting that as far as the parents are aware, the children liked the barn. He's not directly claiming he knows the children did, since he has no expert that can attest to that.
Either way, people should be glad his defense is shit. He has to do his best. This is his best. And if this is their best shot, they're fucked.
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u/splycedaddy 2d ago
“She said that she had called Child Protective Services multiple times on this family.”
How was this a foot note??? The children deserve to know why
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u/panicnarwhal 2d ago
the police were also called twice before, in may and june, according to the affidavit
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u/Agreeable-Chair7040 2d ago
What the actual fuck. Those poor children thinking they were finally getting a family and this is what they lived through. Evil.
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u/Grose040791 2d ago
that makes me so sad thinking about it like that. Like they prob presented themselves as these nice, Christian people that wanted to adopt out of the love in their hearts and everyone at the adoption agency prob ate it up, including the children. Then the happiness immediately becomes a horror story. disgusting
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u/IWillBaconSlapYou 1d ago
I'll bet they were relieved that they were going together, too. They probably thought the best case scenario had happened.
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u/Muted_Balance_9641 2d ago
Fun fact is the neighbors called the cops a ton to report them but the cops only came a few times.
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u/CupcakesAreMiniCakes 2d ago
There is story after story coming out about these situations where neighbors, family, etc. kept contacting authorities repeatedly for years and they never did anything until either a kid dies or something else serious happens
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u/Content-Scallion-591 2d ago
A couple days ago my neighbors called the cops because they heard a woman screaming from our house. Four cops showed up and my husband said it was my goats, which is true, because when a goat screams it sounds like a person dying, even though they were particularly happy about peanuts.
But they didn't even verify we had goats, they just left immediately. I was thinking the whole time wow, my husband could actually get away with murdering me. I feel they could have at least glanced outside to see if we even had goats.
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u/maroongolf_blacksaab 2d ago
Jeffrey Dahmer being one of the worst instances of this
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u/_My_Angry_Account_ 2d ago
The cops brought one of his victims back to him after he escaped...
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u/Faiakishi 1d ago
His underaged victim. Who was heavily drugged and mumbling nonsense out on the street, buck naked.
The cops threatened to arrest the women who called them if they kept making a fuss over it.
They also 'poked around' Dahmer's apartment while doing this, including looking into the bathroom. Where he had a corpse laid out on the floor. Cop didn't see it because he didn't turn on the light.
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u/WriggleNightbug 2d ago
This fact isn't fun at all.
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u/Muted_Balance_9641 2d ago
I mean I find it hopeful that the neighbors never gave up until the kids got rescued. Even in a state like West Virginia which is associated to some degree with the history of the south.
But to each their own.
Hope the kids can sue their “parents” and their church and family for everything they own.
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u/bros402 2d ago
what a good neighbor
fuck the police
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u/badgurlvenus 2d ago
she sounded so angry on the 911 call. good for her for never giving up until these kids could get justice.
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u/WriggleNightbug 2d ago
I was reacting to the cops not doing shit, but actually it is nice to know the neighbors called it in.
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u/iProtein 2d ago
Even in a state like West Virginia which is associated to some degree with the history of the south.
While I'm all for dropping on Appalachia, doesn't West Virginia specifically exist as a repudiation of the confederacy?
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u/Canopenerdude 2d ago
Historically, yes. Contemporarily? Eh...
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u/arrynyo 2d ago
I live in Ohio and I say "wtf?" Every time I see a confederate flag in front of somebody's house. They hide behind history but don't even know the history.
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u/Mediocretes1 2d ago
Man, I live in Wisconsin and see confederate flags sometimes. If we were any more north we'd be Canada 😂
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u/Heathen_Mushroom 2d ago
There are reports that even some Canadians fly the Confederate flag.
Vice signalling knows no borders.
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u/AccomplishedCat4524 2d ago
A relative in the UP posted something with the confederate flag. I’m like really? We had family fight for the union.
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u/kiriyaaoi 2d ago
I lived in Upstate NY, and spent quite a bit of time in Northern New Jersey as well for friends, and you'd be shocked at the number of confederate flags you see once you leave the cities in NY, just 10-15 minutes out of Albany and Syracuse and it's like Alabama. New Jersey is even crazier, just half an hour to an hour outside of NYC it's like West Virginia.
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u/mpyne 2d ago
Yes. West Virginia ripped itself away from the Confederacy precisely because its poor Appalachian population saw nothing redeeming in going to war with the Union to do the bidding of rich plantation owners of the rest of Virginia.
This wasn't strictly idealism (though that was a part), there had long been tension between plantation owners and the white farmers in Appalachia working farms not conducive to slavery. If slavery could have worked better in the hills and mountains of West Virginia, they may have never split from the rest of Virginia at all.
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u/PuppetPal_Clem 2d ago
only if you've never had a conversation with someone who is from there. they by and large worship the confederacy as some sort of lost civilization despite it existing for less time than N'sync was actively making music.
source: my stepdad is from WV and we had a couple years of uncomfortable conversations at family holiday gatherings due to his lack of education on the topic of real American history.
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u/ImCreeptastic 2d ago
lack of education on the topic of real American history.
Good thing there aren't a growing number of people trying to white wash our history! /s
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u/marco-esquondolas 2d ago
As a West Virginian born and raised and current resident, I can vouch that the majority of people that I know here are not fans of being lumped in with the south, in fact most are quite proud of our state's origin in rebellion against the Confederacy.
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u/IL-Corvo 2d ago
As another West Virginian, born and raised in the heart of coal-country, I can tell you I saw more than my fair-share of Confederate flags in Logan, Mingo, Wayne, Raleigh, and Cabell counties when I lived there.
Were they common? Not particularly. Even so, I watched with dismay as my home-state went from reliably blue to deep crimson during the Bush-era. West Virginia has a dysfunctional relationship with its origins, just as it has a dysfunctional relationship with coal.
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u/mushmushhhh 2d ago
West Virginia, for what it’s worth, seceded from Virginia at least in large part because east Virginia wanted slavery and West Virginia didn’t.
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u/cat_prophecy 2d ago
West Virginia is a state specifically created because they didn't want slaves and didn't want to be part of the Confederacy.
Why anyone would think it's "part of the south" is entirely beyond me.
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u/ImportantObjective45 2d ago
Modern culture war propaganda tells states that were invaded by the confederacy to consider themselves members.
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u/tomdarch 2d ago
I’m “looking forward to” the inevitable letter of support from their pastor saying what otherwise fine, upstanding Christians they are and the judge commenting on that aspect as part of why he goes lightly in sentencing.
And then the day when one of the abused children has to deal with a judge who doesn’t treat him with anything like the same deference or empathy.
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u/muffinmamamojo 2d ago
Typical police behavior. Don’t forget, there’s actually no expectation for them to protect and serve for us (thanks Supreme Court).
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u/kropfspawn 2d ago
Those poor, poor babies. It will take years and years for the children to work through what happened to them. They will need so many positive interactions with others and lots of help to get some sense of balance, or perspective, and justice in their lives. Some people are so destructive.
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u/Floomby 2d ago
Every paragraph topped the last one with a new gut stabbing detail.
They said that their neighbors hated them. Boo hoo. Now the whole test of the country hates them, too.
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u/Lilacblue1 2d ago
Not the whole country. A few people are taking notes and figuring out how to hide stuff better.
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u/amateur_mistake 2d ago
They are now severely traumatized teenagers who are likely being put into our foster system as we speak. Finding someone to adopt them is probably going to be hard.
It is so fucked up.
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u/beaverscleaver 2d ago
One of the children is 6 years old. My daughter is about to turn 6. Can you imagine looking at a child that young and seeing anything less than someone who deserved to be held and nurtured, read to, fed good meals, played with?
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u/SentryCake 2d ago
Fucking monsters. I can’t help but think about how excited those kids must have been when they were initially adopted.
I’m so angry about this.
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u/EverGlow89 2d ago
Imagine those kids ever hearing some dickhead say that America isn't racist.
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u/InfiniteConfusion-_- 2d ago
Ehhh what trash humans
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u/TheGoverness1998 2d ago
Straight up evil.
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u/Christmas_Panda 2d ago
If you scrubbed the underside of the toilet that doesn't usually get cleaned for years and got all that layered up poop sludge on a brush - If the building was on fire and I could only save these folks or that brush, I'd save the brush.
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u/iamnotfacetious 2d ago
Trash is useless, these Fuckers are actively evil!!
The barbarism is disgusting.
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u/Fun-Improvement-3299 2d ago
How are these type of people allowed to adopt kids. I hear so many stories of how difficult the adoption process is and I just don’t get how this type of personality makes it through the vetting process
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u/gingerbreadmans_ex 2d ago
Monsters. They’re just monstrous facsimiles of people.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 2d ago edited 2d ago
Anyone wanna bet on their political leanings?
Fun fact: they’re not poor. Like, at all. Does that help?
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u/threefingersplease 2d ago
These people have Trump tattoos, guaranteed
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u/Traditional-Yam9826 2d ago
They better be careful or the GOP will recruit them and have them speak at their convention
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u/ImpulseAfterthought 2d ago
Damn, I woke up in the wrong universe again!
In the one I'm from, we fought a terrible and bloody war to stop this sort of thing, and the West Virginians were on the winning side.
What happened in this universe?
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u/h3lblad3 2d ago
and the West Virginians were on the winning side.
West Virginia also wasn't even a state before that war. It was just part of Virginia. They seceded from Virginia to join the Union.
I'm from the same universe. Good to see you, brother.
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u/Rated_PG-Squirteen 2d ago
And the primary reason why WV seceded from Virginia is because of terrain. It was too mountainous in what is now WV to have sprawling, thriving slave plantations, so all of the people in that region were fed up with the decision makers further East who were solely focused on issues related to chattel slavery and ignored virtually any requests and desires being voiced by the "hillbillies."
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u/cyncity7 2d ago
I’m reading a really excellent book about the Civil War. The pre-Civil War south sounds exactly like the right wing today. Not similar, exactly alike. I’m from the south and I thought I’d heard every racist thing, but I’m still amazed. “The Demon of Unrest” if anyone is interested.
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u/Neltrix 2d ago
Some peach in the White House started making people more comfortable about being true pieces of shit.
“Hey if a trash human being can get to be president, I can be a little (you pick)”
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u/zoinkability 2d ago
Clarence Thomas will find some way to side with this scum
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u/Zaphodnotbeeblebrox 2d ago
Wrong universe? What universe you come from? It’s always been like this here. Such horrible humans are in the congress, government and court. They’re everywhere.
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u/Tynda3l 2d ago
"Ms. Whitefeather told the deputies that people in the area don’t like them, and vehicles had been stopping on the roadway in front of their residence,” "
Yeah, well you are both clearly fucking monsters who destroyed these children's lives.
They need to invent a new form of punishment for what they did.
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u/bros402 2d ago
They need to invent a new form of punishment for what they did.
can they just do to them what they did to their victims
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u/AvailableFunction435 2d ago
wtf? What reality do these people live in their mind? $500k bond is far too low for the physical and psychological damage they have done to those kids. They should rot in a cage of their own.
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u/jst4wrk7617 2d ago edited 2d ago
The lady in Texas who tried to drown a Muslim child (I think 9 y/o) got a 25k bond. I hate it here.
Edit: the child was THREE.
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u/Traditional-Yam9826 2d ago
Republicans overwhelmingly control the national judiciary.
So the odds are high when you’re facing a judge, you’re facing MAGA
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u/WVEers89 2d ago
As a West Virginian, these people aren’t from here. They moved here thinking they could get away with it and got caught here. Disgusting fucking people.
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u/komododave17 2d ago
What’s equally as terrible is that it almost worked. The neighbors called child services multiple times. Without the insistence and tenacity of a completely uninvolved party, the kids would still be in that condition.
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u/Maria-Stryker 2d ago
It’s so stupid because the whole reason there are two Virginias in the first place is because the founders of West Virginia hated slavery
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u/poorboychevelle 2d ago
Reasons seeing someone fly the stars and bars in WV is infuriating
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u/sniper91 2d ago
Minnesota was the first state to send soldiers to fight in the Civil War, yet you’ll see Confederate flags in the rural parts of the state
Actual history doesn’t matter to dipshits
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u/sinat50 2d ago
I grew up in a rural area outside of Ottawa, Ontario (the capital of Canada), and people flew the Confederate flag out there too. It's just a symbol of racism
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u/FStubbs 2d ago
That's ... not quite. What they really hated was being dominated by the planters in the rest of Virginia. There were attempts at an Appalachian state before (like Vandalia and Westsylvania) that failed. The Civil War was just the perfect opportunity to finally get out.
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u/aznhoopster 2d ago
You’re telling me we could’ve had a Vandalia instead of West Virginia? That would’ve been sick
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u/jeremycb29 2d ago
If you want a fun Sunday check out failed US states there were some wild passes
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u/SpiritualMongoose751 2d ago
That's a very polite way to say "completely wrong". The people of WV were overwhelmingly in favor of slavery and supporting the confederacy but the people running the government at the time dissented and pushed to join the Union. They are one of the five border (aka pro-slavery) states who fought for the union.
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u/DigestibleDecoy 2d ago
Also find the agency that allowed them to adopt 5 children and hold them accountable
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u/PsychedelicJerry 2d ago
what's so annoying about this state is that they have a cop behind every tree and billboard for minor traffic violations but could barely respond to 10% of the neighbors calls. I think at some point we need to be able to declare a state failed and restart it's government, banning anyone currently serving from ever being in politics again. Or maybe this is purely just another case of police failure and yet another glaring sign that we need strong civilian oversight committees that can remove police leadership when they focus on easy, money generating activities instead of society's actual policing needs
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u/CRKing77 2d ago
Imagine being a child, knowing what's happening to you is bad, and the cops are the good guys, they'll save you. The smiling policeman shakes hands with your abuser and walks away, leaving you to be abused more.
Then you see those same policemen get hailed as "heroes who sacrifice it all to save the day" when in reality they are lazy sociopaths in it for the power.
Yeah...yeah I feel a certain way about police
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u/IamNICE124 2d ago
I truly can’t fathom the level of evil someone must possess to do something like this.
Not trying to sound all virtuous, but Jesus, this is fucking pure evil.
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u/GlumTowel672 2d ago
I read about this a few days ago in local news, these people recently moved from Washington I think because they were being investigated. These arnt West Virginians for the people dragging WV in the comments, they just tried to hide here.
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u/Hakairoku 2d ago
They better be charged for a hate crime.
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u/panicnarwhal 2d ago
they should be. they’ve been charged with human trafficking of children, civil rights violations, use of a minor child in forced labor, and child neglect.
the children adopted are 6, 9, 11, 14, and 16.
absolutely heinous behavior, these motherfuckers were basically running a plantation. they have better conditions in jail than those babies kept in a shed, only let out for manual labor.
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u/Historical_Project00 2d ago edited 2d ago
Let me guess. Homeschooled?
Imo we should follow the German model of homeschooling, otherwise no one should be surprised that this was able to happen. As a former homeschooled child, the use of black children as slaves is of course shocking, but the mechanism in which they were able to be successful in carrying that out is completely unsurprising to me.
In 2014 pediatrician Barbara Knox and several co-authors studied 28 child abuse cases that exceeded physical abuse and into child torture. They found that 47% of those children were homeschooled, 29% were never enrolled in school.
A 2018 study by the Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate found that 36% of children that had been removed from public school to be homeschooled had previous documented reports of family abuse and neglect. There is also an entire database of dead homeschooled children known as Homeschool’s Invisible Children that is doing its best to keep record of documented cases of deaths. And that’s just the known deaths, and not including the extreme social isolation inherent in homeschooling (see r/homeschoolrecovery), unschooling or the physical, sexual, identity, adoption, or labor abuse cases. There are parents who will also use it for white flight.
According to Social Work Today, former child welfare administrators have reported that the Home School Legal Defense Fund (HSLDA), a religious-right pro-homeschool organization, has attempted to block and hinder some welfare investigations on homeschooled children that were meant to be carried out for reasons other than educational neglect, such as physical child abuse or "traditional" neglect.
Homeschooling is a much bigger deal than most people know. Us in the homeschool recovery community vehemently see homeschooling as legalized child neglect mainly because of the crippling loss of developmental human interaction and stimuli inherent in it, and the zero oversight. To homeschool in Germany you need to go to court for permission like you would in the US during a divorce custody battle, since the decision has a drastic effect on the child's life and wellbeing. German parents who are allowed to homeschool do so for actual fucking reasons, like disability, child actors, a temporary atypical life circumstance etc. It should only be used as a “break glass in case of emergency” form of (regulated) schooling.
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u/DUMP_LOG_DAVE 2d ago
I didn’t know anything about this sub but I’m so glad it exists. I didn’t get homeschooled but my two cousins did by my fundamentalist evangelist aunt and uncle. We’re all in our thirties now but I wish I could’ve had more interaction with them growing up, we just lived in different parts of the country. I only met them a few times and they were full of all the wrong ideas about life because they’d been fed all the republican christian talking points their entire childhood. My ex wife’s much younger half brother has also been subject to the same thing and he’s only 8 right now, but he was already saying all sorts of crazy sad stuff about vaccines and his dad has a Q sticker on his car. My former supervisor was a total fucking libertarian small govt nutcase and homeschooled his 4 kids. I watched them grow up at our holiday parties every year and now they’re teenagers and two of them no longer talk to either of their parents.
It’s such a huge problem in the US that in every step of my life (extended family, ex wife’s family, coworker’s kids) I’ve witnessed indoctrination and abuse under the “homeschool” umbrella. And it’s always been the religious rightwing conspiracy types. You are so right that it is evil and should be illegal. These poor kids never had a choice just like my cousins, and my cousins had their chance at lives and developing their own identity stripped from them. The worst part is how socially acceptable it is. Did anyone in my life view any of these sets of parents as evil? Very few. I sure did and have always been outspoken about it, but that just isn’t enough.
I hope in our lifetimes we are able to see the US adopt Germanys system. The religious right in the US has such a horrible influence on the development of kids.
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u/slasula 2d ago
I always assume homeschooled just means they grew up in some creepy cult or with creepy christians
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u/Historical_Project00 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think it is beginning to bleed into conservative culture in general, as the party moves further and further rightwing and sees schools at all levels as “indoctrination factories.” The pandemic certainly didn’t help.
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u/ttaptt 2d ago
My idiot brother's idiot ex's decision to let their son "homeschool" because he didn't "like going to school" is gonna fuck him up for life. She is lazy af, so he did the bare minimum of any school work. Played online video games with his dad (my brother) from like 6th grade until he dropped out and got his GED at 17. Now he's 19, lives in my brother's basement, plays online video games 24/7. He's terribly socialized, like, not at all. He had a job once for an hour and walked off. My idiot brother drank his way into "permanent disability", I think there's some malingering going on, but who knows, because he's a pathological liar. Somehow he has a third wife, who I guess really loves him but she seems dim, but hardworking. Both my parents are now dead, I live out of state, and threw up my hands a long time ago, since I had no ability to change anything.
But the kid will never have a fulfilling life. I can't imagine him ever having a healthy relationship with a woman (or man). I suspect his mother let him sleep in her bed WELL beyond a healthy time, as he was still sleeping in her bed when they divorced when he was 5. I'm thinking 13 or 14. But we had no way to know. Just a shitshow all around.
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u/cegr76 2d ago
A couple from Washington state who moved to West Virginia to do their criming.
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u/SpiceEarl 2d ago
They were trying to escape woke ideology in Washington. You know, woke ideology like not keeping slaves...
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u/ms_panelopi 2d ago
Don’t forget. These are the kinds of people who vote for Trump.
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u/milkonyourmustache 2d ago
The appropriate punishment, outside of spending the rest of their lives in prison, is to have all their assets transferred to these children and placed in trust. Their crimes were racially and financially motivated, so strip them of all the financial gains they've made their entire lives and transfer it to these kids whom they've robbed of their childhood, their innocence, dignity, and possibly their future.
I also hope a solution can be found which can keep any of them together should they wish to.
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u/ConfusionCareful3985 2d ago edited 2d ago
The other day, i saw a post on here where someone mentioned a website and i made the mistake of visiting it. It was just a bunch of hate. One forum as recent as jun 18th was called "why are Blcks so awful" with thousands of comments, over 4M views of losers saying the most vile stuff about people that look like me.. i was shocked that there was so much participation.
Ever since then everywhere I go i get this feeling that everyone around me secretly hates me or something and just isn't saying it. Its not a fun feeling
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u/Bearshapedbears 2d ago
This must be one of those Black Jobs that Trump was talking about during the debate.
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u/Competitive-Plenty32 2d ago
I just want to remind everyone that these two were alive when mass segregation was extremely prevalent in the U.S
It’s insane to think that it wasn’t even that long ago. We’ve come a long way but until all these fuckers pass away we have much more to go.
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u/Blackandheavy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Some people need to be locked away with key the thrown into the bottom of the ocean.
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u/tsmartin123 2d ago
WV CPS is horrible! Here is a recent example of them not doing their job and a death resulting from it: https://www.wsaz.com/2024/06/06/wsaz-investigates-state-officials-address-handling-teen-death-case/
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u/NamasteMotherfucker 2d ago
They should go to a vintage 1800s prison. A wooden plank for a bed, gruel, no showers, a bucket in the corner, straw on the floor. You know, out of respect for their heritage.
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u/Travelingdabber 2d ago
Whenever ever someone tells me there's no more racism. I like to show them this
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u/braiser77 2d ago
Do I even need to guess who they planned on voting for this year?
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u/OlderThanMyParents 2d ago
No problem, within four years the Supreme Court will find this completely lawful.
I wish I was being sarcastic.
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u/TheoriginalTonio 2d ago
How do you even propose such a thing to your spouse?
"Honey, I've got a brilliant idea, hear me out..."
And then even get the other person agreeing to it instead of running away in shock and disgust.
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u/DAN991199 2d ago
Heinous crime against children? The must be drag queens right?
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor 2d ago
People like this believe salvation can only come with death, suffering, and endless toil. They believe they’re implementing God’s will by imparting such misery on others. They’re actually evil incarnate.
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u/Roman_____Holiday 2d ago
The thing to understand about slavery is that it only takes the combination of a few human failings to bring a person to accept being a slave owner or even desire it. A lack of empathy, an excess of aggression or hate. Selfishness bordering on narcissism. Just being raised by ignorant racists can be enough to turn an otherwise viable human into a practitioner of slavery. Because so many people struggle for so long to bring us progress they mistakenly believe that an equal effort would be required to pull society back, but unfortunately this is not true. Our base animal psychology is always present and ready to turn us back into savage slave-holding assholes. This is also why so many are convinced of the need for religion. We need an authority, real or imagined, to keep these ignorant fucks from running amuck. Unfortunately the Bible doesn't speak out against slavery with the vehemence with which is speaks out about adultery or pork.
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u/Commentary455 2d ago
Their victims were found locked in a barn with no bedding or air conditioning. https://wchstv.com/news/local/deputy-details-devastating-conditions-of-sissonville-barn-where-children-were-found-locked-inside