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0:00It’s 6 am and the sun is just rising over the field
0:04Stretching as far as the eye can see, rows upon rows of men
0:08They are all dark-skinned, bent over the ground, picking the crop by
0:12hand, grain by grain, without
0:14Machines, with sweat dripping from them onto the ground.
0:17Above them, guards armed with rifles were watching their every move.
0:22Anyone who looks up or slows down at work will face a penalty if you pause
0:26the video because I asked you to
0:28This scene is from which year? What would your answer be? 1850 or 1860.
0:33The Days of Slavery in America.
0:35Right? It makes sense, because that’s exactly what slave plantations were like.
0:39The same fields.
0:40The same curve.
0:41The same armed guards.
0:43But the answer is A.
0:44This scene is currently being documented in the recent years we are living
0:49through, specifically in the city of
0:51Angola, in the US state of Louisiana.
0:54And the real shock isn’t that – the shock is that everything I saw in that
0:58scene is 100 per cent legal.
1:00It’s not a hidden crime, nor is it a scandal that anyone is trying to cover up.
1:04There is no functioning official system in full view of the whole world
1:08Protected by the US Constitution because of six words.
1:12Six words written exactly over 160 years ago
1:17As I’ve heard, slavery in America
1:19It’s still there to this day.
1:21What I’ve just told you isn’t just small talk or a way of grabbing your attention,
1:25and then I’ll tell you something
1:26It’s different from traditional YouTube videos.
1:29What I’ve said is 100 per cent true, and once you know the details, you’ll realise
1:33you’re living in a whole different world.
1:35The most unjust thing about it is the law under which it is governed.
1:39Today’s topic will make you take a long, hard look at yourself once you’ve heard
1:43the harrowing details it contains.
1:44And it’s clear that there are still slaves, and their situation today is worse
1:48than anything we’ve ever known about them.
1:53For those of you meeting me for the first time, I’m Abu al-Sadiq.
1:56And I’ll be talking about everything strange and mysterious
1:58on the planet Earth.
2:00As usual, before we start, remember that we’ll be showing two
2:03clips and then continuing.
2:04And don’t believe everything you hear.
2:06Victory comes only from God.
2:08Today I’m going to tell you about one of the strangest cases currently in the US.
2:13A story whose details we have pieced together from federal court files, based
2:16on a journalistic investigation that took two full years.
2:19Everything you’re about to hear is backed up by evidence.
2:22Six words that changed the lives of millions of people.
2:25A government that exploits people for profit, and their hard work goes to
2:30companies whose names will surprise you.
2:32Subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications.
2:34And don’t forget to like it, because, as we always say,
2:37All these stories, however similar they may be, are worth telling in my own words.
2:44Before we start today’s episode, I’d like to extend a very special thank you to
2:49everyone who sent us messages about
2:51A programme called ‘Banned Files’ that we’re broadcasting on the
2:54Al Jazeera 360 platform.
2:55I’m really pleased that you’ve enjoyed the programme so much. Many of you know
2:58that we’ve partnered with a platform
3:00Al Jazeera 360 is producing a programme called *Asmo Abu al-Sadiq*.
3:04Restricted files.
3:05The idea behind the programme is that, as far as I can tell, we’re making
3:08documentaries about these things.
3:09The higher the ceiling on this platform, the more I can talk about it.
3:14That’s why we’re making some really powerful documentaries there.
3:17The programme isn’t political.
3:18The programme consists of documentary stories.
3:21It opens your eyes to things that are happening in this world, just
3:24like what we’re doing here.
3:25But the dose was much higher than I realise.
3:28I'd love it if you could go and watch the programme and let me know what you think.
3:31Especially the episode we posted recently, which is about betting.
3:35These days, the whole world is betting on everything.
3:38Trading platforms with billions of dollars’ worth of trading volume
3:42in things you can’t even imagine.
3:44The episode is called ‘A Bet on Blood’.
3:46Don’t think that life these days is all about betting on football
3:49matches and so on.
3:50Today, I’m betting on the missiles and the wars you’re seeing.
3:53The ‘Bet on Blood’ episode is one of the best – I’d really recommend you go and
3:57watch it, along with ‘Tuskigi’s Betrayal’.
3:59You’ll learn a lot from it about what’s going on in the world.
4:02I’ll leave the link to the programme in the description box and
4:04in the first comment.
4:05Once you’ve finished watching this video, I’d recommend you go and check it out.
4:08The beginning.
4:09O Lord, open my heart, make my affairs easy for me, and untie the knot in my
4:12tongue, so that they may understand what I say.
4:14O Allah, I seek refuge in You from arrogance.
4:16On 6 December 1800.
4:21America was emerging from the most brutal war in its history.
4:24The civil war.
4:26A war in which more than 600,000 people were killed; one of its
4:30main causes was slavery.
4:32At that moment, what millions had been waiting for for so many
4:35years finally came to pass.
4:36The United States ratified the 13th Amendment to its Constitution, the
4:40amendment that abolished slavery.
4:43Celebrations, tears of joy, and millions of people hearing the word ‘free’
4:47for the first time in their lives.
4:49But let me read out the text of the amendment itself to you.
4:53Let’s read it word for word: the text of the law states that there
4:57shall be no slavery, nor
4:59Forced labour within the United States.
5:01So far, everything’s fine.
5:03However, the text does not stop there; it goes on to say that this is merely a
5:07punishment for a crime for which he has been convicted.
5:10In which the person is properly identified.
5:12Read it again, unless it’s as a punishment for a crime.
5:15This means that slavery is forbidden for all human beings except
5:19for one: the prisoner.
5:20These are the six words I told you about at the start of the video.
5:23America has not abolished slavery.
5:25Complete cancellation.
5:26I left a small door open for her.
5:28A chapter entitled ‘Prison’.
5:30The southern states, whose entire economy had been based on slave labour,
5:34did not take long before
5:36They understand the game; after all, slavery is permitted for the convicted.
5:39The solution is simple: make sure the people you want to enslave end up in debt.
5:43And that’s how some strange laws came about.
5:46Laws have been passed criminalising things such as loitering, vagrancy and
5:50disrespect; these are vague laws
5:52It applies to anyone you want to arrest.
5:54The result was tens of thousands of freed Black people who
5:59They were arrested on trivial charges, tried, and then sentenced
6:03What did she rent them for? Yes, she rented them just as you would
6:07A taxi service for farm owners working for railway companies
6:10The coal miners worked in the mines from dawn to dusk, keeping their voices down.
6:16This system has an official name in American history.
6:19Hiring convicts: the same fields, the same voices, the same faces.
6:24But instead of being called ‘Abd’, he came to be known as ‘the prisoner of
6:27historians’; today, they refer to this era as ‘the era of slavery’
6:30In other words, the same circumstances they were living through.
6:34Slaves face the same circumstances.
6:35How to deal with them.
6:37Insulting them, exploiting them and making them work for free.
6:41Everything you can possibly think of about slavery
6:44It’s exactly the same, except that the name has changed from
6:47‘slave’ to ‘prisoner’.
6:48The problem is that this new form of slavery is worse than slavery itself.
6:53Back in the day, the farm owner used to pay a huge sum to buy a slave, so he
6:56looked after him just as you would look after
6:58Whatever it was you paid for.
7:00As for the prisoner hired today, if he dies of exhaustion, the state will just
7:04find someone else; you’ve got nothing to lose.
7:06In other words, the practice of hiring out people who have been sentenced or
7:10prisoners is a continuation of slavery.
7:11No, it’s just slavery in a new, cheaper and harsher form.
7:15Right, all that’s ancient history. That’s how it’s supposed to be. Do you think that
7:19everything we’re talking about is from
7:20The start of the video is now quite old.
7:23That system certainly came to an end a hundred years ago.
7:25That’s just how you speak – it’s what naturally comes to mind.
7:29But unfortunately, no.
7:31Let me tell you about a place called Angola.
7:34Angola is a tract of land in the state of Louisiana covering an area of
7:38approximately 93 square kilometres.
7:41I mean, if you want to compare it to something to get an idea of its size,
7:44it’s bigger than a lot of cities.
7:45You know she’s bigger than Gaza, where she lives.
7:482 million people is more than the population of Madaba Governorate in
7:53Jordan, which has a population of 228,000
7:55Bani Adam covers a large area.
7:58This land used to be a cotton farm run by slave labour.
8:01Slaves worked there from dawn until dusk.
8:04They worked under the scorching Louisiana sun.
8:06Following the abolition of slavery, this plantation was converted into
8:11the Louisiana State Prison.
8:12He went into detail with me about this because it’s all
8:16The crux of the story: the Louisiana ruling between the two judgements
8:22Only in prison are prisoners officially sentenced to hard labour.
8:25I mean, work isn’t a divine choice.
8:27Work is part of governance itself.
8:29The first place a prisoner enters in Angola is a section called ‘Farm Line’.
8:34Long queues of prisoners, the majority of whom are black
8:37They take them out to the fields and let them pick okra
8:41They have maize and potatoes in their hands, and armed guards stand watch over
8:44them; there, they are known as the ‘rifle guards’ and the ‘free men’.
8:48Louisiana is one of the hottest and most humid states in America, with
8:51temperatures reaching levels of
8:53It poses a threat to people’s lives, and the work just carries on.
8:56As for wages, according to a report by the human rights organisation
9:00US Civilian Prisoner Working in Louisiana
9:04He earns between 2 cents and 40 cents an hour for two years,
9:09I mean, he can’t even afford to buy a packet of chewing gum with that
9:12Work in the fields under the sun and they’ll pay you 2 cents for it.
9:17So, if you work ten hours a day, they’ll pay you
9:20Twenty cents – so a prisoner’s monthly wage there is 6
9:25A dollar – the very same land where slaves once toiled is now worked
9:29by the land’s prisoners
9:31I haven’t changed; it’s the harvest that’s changed.
9:35The sign at the entrance shows a young black man called Darius
9:39He is 30 years old and comes from a town called Monroe,
9:42Taken in northern Louisiana in 2003. I’m focusing.
9:48We’re talking about March 2003, when he arrived at Angola Prison
9:53Like all the new arrivals, I headed down to the farm.
9:56Darius knew that Angola was a slave plantation.
10:00When he was a child, his grandfather used to tell him stories about their ancestors
10:03who worked under the Louisiana sun.
10:04There is an official written ruling by the Federal Court, which is included
10:09in today’s case file, describing
10:11He feels like he’s working in the fields; he said, ‘When I’m digging…’
10:15With dirt on my hands and my back aching from exhaustion, I’m completely worn out
10:19Drenched in sweat, with a rifle guard standing over me, I think
10:22of my enslaved ancestors.
10:24Generations have come and gone, yet the situation remains exactly as my
10:27grandfather described it to me – the circumstances in which
10:29his ancestors lived.
10:30I’m having a worse time than I did back in the summer of 2014, which was
10:35An uncle who works in the fields felt a sharp pain in his back,
10:39They took him to the medical team, who checked his pulse and blood pressure.
10:42They told him, ‘Get back to work.’ That was the important thing for Ilham: your
10:46blood pressure’s fine and you’ve got a pulse, which means you’re
10:49As long as you’re working and everything’s fine, they treat you like a machine.
10:52The main thing is that the motor’s working.
10:54As for his back – which was the reason for the complaint in the first place –
10:57nobody examined it or even touched it.
10:59The pain doesn’t matter.
11:00The important thing is that you’re able to move around and carry on working after a
11:03while, when the pain became unbearable and reached a certain point
11:05For a while, Ino really couldn’t move. They punished him.
11:09They issued him with a fine and banned him from the canteen.
11:12Just imagine – the canteen is the only thing that eases the
11:15prisoners’ suffering there.
11:17Let them buy things from him as a form of freedom.
11:20They banned him from it for a full two weeks as a punishment
11:24because his back was hurting.
11:25More than 76 prisoners working in the US said they would face punishment
11:30if they refused to work.
11:32Solitary confinement.
11:33Denial of the opportunity for conditional release, prohibition from
11:36The canteen is either open or you’ll have to pay, according to
11:40The ECLU report published in 2022.
11:45The number of working prisoners in the United States.
11:48800,000 people.
11:49800,000.
11:50So the entire population of a city is working inside
11:53Prisons: their average wages range from 13 cents to 52 cents
11:59Per hour, even though the minimum wage in the US is $7.25.
12:03You might think they’re paying them low wages, but they’re selling the
12:07products inside the prisons at prices
12:09It’s not many, but let me tell you that 70 per cent of them said they
12:12couldn’t afford even the most basic
12:15Their basic needs – I mean, they can’t even afford a bar of soap or a
12:19phone call to their families.
12:21I’m sure you’re now wondering why they’re treating them like that. It’s only
12:25natural that you’d think that.
12:27You’re definitely exaggerating a bit, Abu al-Sadiq.
12:30It’s impossible for the situation to be like that now, given that in 2006, as we
12:33know, prison was a place for reform and rehabilitation.
12:36So even when the punishment involves hard labour, the aim is for the
12:40prisoner to learn a skill.
12:42When he gets out of prison, he’ll know how to learn the trade and work in it so
12:45that he can make a living from it.
12:46But, brothers, this is a much bigger issue than you can possibly imagine.
12:50These prisoners are the ones who are being made to work for practically nothing, in
12:53conditions worse than those of slaves.
12:54During the days of slavery, they produced goods worth $2 billion.
12:59Every year, they provide services to run the prisons
13:03$9 billion a year.
13:07$11 billion worth of production for pennies’ worth of wages, whilst prisons
13:11account for less than one per cent of
13:14Their budgets for the wages of working prisoners.
13:16This is a participant in a rehabilitation programme.
13:18This is about the economy, employment and the exploitation of working prisoners in
13:21America – not some union talking the talk
13:23In his name, and he is not entitled to compensation for work-related injuries.
13:26And this is the question that will make you see the whole world in a new light:
13:30where is all this production heading? You
13:32You’re talking about 11 billion dollars, and that’s the crux of the matter.
13:36And the most important part of the whole story is: ‘Refill my cup of tea.’
13:40I followed you because you’re going to hear a lot of talk.
13:43In two articles by the Associated Press, their names are
13:47Robin McDowell and Mark Mason decided to follow
13:51The goods go from the prison gate until they reach their final destination
13:54Where on earth is this production going? Who stands to benefit from it?
13:59They stood in front of Angola Prison.
14:01Keep an eye out for lorries coming from that direction.
14:03The lorries don’t have any markings on them; there are no company names or logos.
14:08The lorries are leaving the prison grounds loaded with cows.
14:12They followed her, and after a short while they came upon a local livestock dealer
14:16who bought them and took them away.
14:18They got into their car and carried on their journey, kilometre after kilometre.
14:23One province after another.
14:24They travelled 600 miles – that’s about 1,000 kilometres – until
14:29the lorries arrived
14:30For a slaughterhouse in the state of Texas.
14:33According to the investigation carried out by the two journalists, this abattoir
14:36supplies a number of supply chains
14:38Whose meat is it? McDonald’s, Walmart, Cargill.
14:42The two journalists didn’t stop there once they’d learnt this information.
14:45After being imprisoned in Angola, they moved to another county
14:48in the state of Alabama.
14:49Keep an eye out for the prisoner transport vans heading to Luwain this morning
14:53They found them transporting workers to poultry processing plants
14:56belonging to a company
14:57Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest meat companies.
15:01It means they take prisoners from prison and put them to work in
15:04factories and large companies.
15:06The investigation they carried out was shocking.
15:08The products that come out of these prisons can be found in almost every
15:12American kitchen: crisps, brosted
15:14Flex, Sausages, Paul Park, Flour, Golden
15:18Rose Rice Land, Coca-Cola, other products
15:22They were sold at shops such as Kroger, Target, Wal-Mart and Whole Foods.
15:27In figures.
15:28The investigation focused on sales of agricultural produce and livestock.
15:32It was the prisoners who built it and worked there.
15:35These products are worth more than two hundred million dollars in
15:39just one year and six months.
15:40The investigation did not state that McDonald’s and Coca-Cola had employed
15:44prisoners, but it confirmed that
15:45Products made by prisoners.
15:47I entered the supply chains and followed them; in other words, instead of saying
15:51‘This is Zani’, you say ‘This is Dani, this is her’.
15:53The result is the same, but they’re taking the long route so that their work
15:57isn’t directly for these companies.
15:59Of course, when the companies were asked, they replied that, as usual, they would
16:02launch an investigation into the matter, and among them…
16:04Some companies have denied the whole thing.
16:07If you think what you’ve heard is sad and surprising, it’s actually happening
16:10these days, even though we all thought
16:12It’s slavery—it’s over. Let me tell you, it’s much harder to hear about it now.
16:17So if you’re sensitive, don’t listen to it.
16:22December 2023: Group of current prisoners
16:26And two from Alabama, including two of the biggest
16:29Trade unions in the US have filed a class action lawsuit against the
16:33state; this lawsuit is brought by
16:35The strangest documents you could ever read.
16:37The claim states that the State of Alabama is running
16:40A scheme that brings in $450 million a year
16:44Through a programme called ‘external execution’.
16:47The authorities allow prisoners to work outside prison; they send them
16:50to work for private companies.
16:52And which companies are these? McDonald’s, KFC, Burger
16:56King Winds and over 500 companies and employers
17:00All in all, according to the invitation, it’s likely that in Alabama we’ll have the
17:04burgers we’ve made and the chicken we’ve brought along
17:06A man passed by Eiden late in the day, on his way back from work
17:10to sleep in his cell.
17:12The biggest problem is that these prisoners said in their appeal that
17:15whenever they submit a request to be released from
17:18The prison keeps rejecting their requests for release
17:21What I mean is, the prisoners aren’t dangerous; their behaviour
17:24is perfectly fine,
17:25They’ve done everything required of them; they’ve served a fair portion of their
17:29sentences and are now applying for release.
17:31Under the terms of the law, they’re supposed to approve their applications,
17:35but they always reject them. Why?
17:37Because if the authorities kick them out, they’ll lose their jobs and
17:41the money that comes with them.
17:42Just imagine – they might keep a prisoner in jail for five extra years just
17:47because his job brings in money.
17:49They’ll fabricate any charge against him just to extend his sentence.
17:52Listen, lads, we’re talking about a case concerning slavery that was
17:57heard in court back in 2005.
17:59This case involves tens of thousands of prisoners – not just one or two.
18:04This is a fully functional system that has been running smoothly for years.
18:07I’m sure you’re wondering what I’m on about – nobody seems to have noticed this.
18:11It’s hard to believe that no one has called for this law to be changed, because
18:14it’s clear that certain parties have exploited it, leading to slavery.
18:17It’s working, and it’s clear that the government has shut it by the
18:20door and opened it by the window.
18:22That’s an excellent question, and the answer is the strangest
18:24part of the whole story.
18:26If you were living in a US state and were asked whether you wanted to remove the
18:29slavery clause from the Constitution, what would you say?
18:32If they told you that the law which prohibits slavery still contains a
18:34loophole allowing for imprisonment, would you want us to remove it?
18:37Do you want us to revoke this decision? I’m sure your answer will be ‘yes’.
18:40Imagine that in the year 2022, it was the state of Louisiana itself that
18:44was home to Angola Prison.
18:46Put this question to the voters.
18:48As a result, the voters rejected him on 5 November 2004 in the state of California.
18:53The largest state in America.
18:55Put this question on the ballot paper.
18:58Are you in favour of removing forced labour as a punishment from the state
19:01constitution? Are you in favour of prohibiting the punishment
19:03of prisoners who
19:04He refuses to work, and the voters have rejected him too? California, the state
19:08that leads the way in all these movements
19:11The Americans rejected the rights, and this story only happened once a year
19:14Two thousand and twenty-four, not 1860, and don’t think that
19:18People rejected them because they’re abusive; don’t think it’s because
19:21the voters are unemployed.
19:22Don’t think that voters aren’t human beings with feelings.
19:26They want to keep slavery going. No.
19:28The question put to the voters was not clearly worded.
19:32It was worded so confusingly that many people didn’t understand
19:36what they were voting on
19:38In fact, some of them realised that they had fallen into a state of servitude, even
19:41though they were the ones perpetuating it.
19:43I mean, in the end, they made a mockery of the people and let them vote
19:46as if slavery still existed
19:47It has an open door through the prisons.
19:50The loophole in the law remains.
19:53And this story isn’t confined to just one province; it spans from
19:55one province to another.
19:56The same thing keeps happening, even in states where the people were well-informed
20:00about the issue and voted sensibly.
20:02They wanted to abolish slavery and forced labour for prisoners
20:05They voted overwhelmingly in favour of abolition.
20:09The court intervened; they challenged the vote, which was supported
20:12by the entire population.
20:13They left the law as it was; they allowed prisoners to be exploited; they
20:16allowed them to be put to work.
20:18The system in America always finds a way to get its way.
20:22You’ll find that there’s no way they’re going to lose these workers
20:25and the money they bring in.
20:27You’re talking about $450 million a year from a single state.
20:32The idea of the game is that whenever someone tries to lock the door,
20:35it pops open somewhere else.
20:37An entire economy worth $11 billion a year is based on the exploitation of prisoners.
20:43It’s very hard to do without it.
20:45And just to be clear, we could have said that these people are criminal
20:48prisoners if we’d gone down that route
20:50We made use of them – no problem.
20:52That’s right, they’re criminals who are wreaking havoc on society.
20:55Dangerous people, rather than being a danger to us.
20:58It’s no big deal if we’re harsh with them and make them work against their will.
21:02But we could have said that if it were actually put into practice
21:06All the prisoners – that is, both the white and the black ones.
21:09But when you look at the statistics, you realise that’s not the case at all.
21:13Most of the people in prison are black.
21:16The statistics show that they are being imprisoned 23 times as often
21:21Young people are being sentenced to long prison terms
21:24Life sentences for crimes that do not warrant such sentences.
21:28Black people are still subject to the vagrancy and homelessness laws
21:32that were in place in 1860.
21:34On the other hand, it could be that a police officer stops a black man on
21:37suspicion of loitering and says to him, ‘What are you up to?’
21:40He’s out on the streets late at night; they’ll catch him, pin a charge on him,
21:43sentence him to a long prison term and lock him up.
21:45Prison: they run it and profit from it financially.
21:48And no one is going to stand up for him.
21:50And that is slavery in a nutshell.
21:52In 1957, in the state of Louisiana itself
21:56A black man called Wayne Bryant.
21:59He went into an equipment shop where a pair of scissors had been stolen.
22:02Tree branches.
22:03Ordinary scissors, just like the ones we’re familiar with.
22:05There’s nothing special about these scissors. They’re rubbish.
22:08No one was hurt. And the theft itself didn’t even succeed.
22:11They caught him, arrested him and put him on trial.
22:13And just imagine – that’s the sentence for a theft like that.
22:15He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
22:17Imprisoned until the last day of his life for a botched attempt to
22:21steal a pair of scissors.
22:22Could you tell me what the world is like, Habel?
22:25I’ll tell you: they sentenced her under a law called the Law on Habitual Offenders.
22:30Brian had a history of minor offences, all of which were petty
22:34thefts linked to poverty.
22:35The law allowed him to be treated as if he were a murderer.
22:39Where are you all? He’s serving a life sentence in Angola, after all.
22:43The same fields we’ve been talking about since the start of the video – 23
22:47years on, and Brian’s still working
22:49In Angola’s fields, so that there is no shortfall in 2020.
22:53His case has reached the state’s highest court.
22:56The issue has blown up out of all proportion, and I’m sure you’re
22:58thinking to yourself right now,
23:00Praise be to God, they corrected their mistake and made amends, but no.
23:03Five out of six judges upheld the life sentence for a pair of scissors
23:09The sixth judge, who is the President of the Court herself
23:12She wrote a formal objection; her objection was recorded
23:14as a document in the file
23:15The case stated that this ruling is a modern version of
23:19The laws that were enacted after the abolition of slavery to once again
23:23criminalise freed Black people.
23:25What I’m telling you now isn’t Abu al-Sadiq’s personal
23:28opinion, nor is it yours.
23:29Reports posted online.
23:31This is the opinion of the presiding judge, Bryant, who was
23:34recently released on parole.
23:36After a huge media fuss, he went in aged 40 and came out aged 33.
23:43Even in America, which celebrated the abolition of slavery, there are still
23:47black men working on those very same plantations
23:49Under the same sun, the armed guards stand watch over them.
23:52Just imagine, everyone: every Sunday in the 10th month, this prison in
23:56Angola opens its doors to the public.
23:58Families of older children will have to pay $20
24:03To get a ticket, go into the prison grounds
24:06They’re watching a show called ‘Rodeo Angola’.
24:09A famous American show, featuring professional riders
24:12Raging bulls and horses draw crowds of spectators
24:16It’s a dangerous sport, even for its champions, but the Angolans taking to
24:20the arena aren’t professional riders
24:22They should bring in prisoners instead – they’ve never been trained
24:25to do anything like that.
24:26They put a raging bull in front of them.
24:28A bull weighing approximately one tonne.
24:30In a segment called ‘Sudanese Poker’, they bring out four prisoners to help them
24:34at a table in the middle of the square
24:36They open the door to a raging bull charging towards them.
24:39The last one still sitting in his chair wins.
24:42Or, for example, they tie a piece of poker between the bull’s horns and the
24:45prisoner, who can then snatch it away
24:47Edo is taking $1,500.
24:50I’m sure you’re wondering.
24:51Is it really reasonable for someone to throw themselves in front of a bull when
24:54they’ve never done anything like that before and could end up dying?
24:56He might be willing to sell it for $1,500.
24:59I’m going to tell you the story of the prisoner who works under the
25:02sun in a slave labour camp.
25:03Is he in on it, and did they sell him out for a few pennies? He’ll definitely risk
25:06his neck for a thousand and five hundred dollars.
25:08What is this sum? If he were to earn it from working in the fields, it
25:12would take him twenty years.
25:13And even if there were to be an injury, the situation for those
25:16present and those in charge of
25:17The show is funny – one of the shows.
25:20A bull gored a prisoner in the stomach.
25:22The whole audience was laughing and laughing.
25:24The presenter kept calling out to him over the microphone until the ambulance
25:28arrived, and everything was fine
25:29Please complete the presentation as you see fit.
25:31A scene in which a crowd of white people are eating and drinking whilst, in front
25:35of them, black men who have been sentenced to death are being thrown to the bulls
25:38They’re in a panic and have no idea how to deal with it, so they just stand there
25:41watching them as they run away from it, as if they were…
25:44Are they running away from death, or are they running away from being hurt by it?
25:47How is this scene any different from the days of slavery long ago, when exactly the
25:51same practices took place? In the first place,
25:53How can a prison organise a show where white people pay for tickets
25:58to see scenes like this? How?
26:00Do these people watch them suffering and still laugh? This is slavery.
26:05and racial discrimination in particular.
26:07Just imagine – more than $6 million from this programme was
26:11embezzled in just two years.
26:13In a separate account, rather than in the state treasury.
26:15I mean, God only knows who put this on.
26:18Maybe someone came along, hired these prisoners, put on this show, made
26:21a big fuss, and brought people in.
26:23He sold them in batches and made a profit. Rodeo shows.
26:27Hey, don’t think of it as a thing of the past.
26:29The last course they officially announced was in the spring of 2006.
26:34This is the year we’re living through, and tickets have gone on sale.
26:37This is only about one prison.
26:40But if we go outside Angola’s borders, you’ll understand what I mean.
26:43It’s a major issue that upsets you, and I can assure you that this is
26:46nothing but pure slavery.
26:47It’s the time when you remember that these people are only one month old.
26:52In 2025, when California was ravaged by wildfires – you’ve all seen the
26:56Los Angeles fires on the news.
26:57The celebrities’ houses were burning and the whole city was choking on
27:01the smoke rising from the fire
27:03There were more than a thousand people on the front line, facing this disaster
27:08At 3 am, a whistle cut short the prisoners’ sleep in the camp; it wasn’t a
27:12whistle to wake them up and give them their rations.
27:14A whistle for them to be taken away and face the firing squad.
27:17The prisoners put on their firefighter uniforms and got on the bus.
27:21They went to tackle the fire alongside the professional firefighters – the
27:24professional firefighter who’s standing there
27:26The prisoner earned a salary of $35,000 a year
27:30How many dollars is the prisoner’s daily wage?
27:33And an extra dollar for every hour spent in front of the flame.
27:37The strange thing is that it was the prisoner himself who chose to come
27:40here, and it was he who applied
27:42He is in charge of this programme.
27:44When one of the prisoners asked him, he said, ‘I chose to face the flames
27:47and the fire, and I volunteered.’
27:49I’m the one who puts out fires in situations like this.
27:52Because there are clouds in the sky and trees.
27:55Being asleep far away from the cells, and doing my bit of work every day,
27:58reduces my sentence a little.
28:00For those prisoners, the fire is better than the cell.
28:04Just try to imagine what a nightmare they must be going through.
28:06The greatest sentence in modern American history.
28:09We abolished slavery.
28:10An incomplete sentence was uttered, and the whole world believed it.
28:13Why? Because not everyone read the line right to the end.
28:16And that’s exactly what I’ve been telling you in every episode.
28:19Don’t believe everything you hear; the most dangerous lies aren’t
28:22the ones written in secret.
28:24The most serious of these are the ones written for all to see, yet no one
28:27has bothered to read the rest of them.
28:29You can watch the video we talked about today to see the story.
28:32You might say this is a long way off for us.
28:34You might be thinking about the situation in America.
28:37What’s this got to do with me? But I’d like to remind you of something.
28:40We’ve all signed documents relating to our lives in the US.
28:44Don’t forget that you have clicked ‘Agree’ to the Terms and Conditions.
28:49When you created your YouTube account here.
28:51Don’t forget that you’ve also clicked ‘Agree’ to Facebook and
28:54Instagram’s terms and conditions.
28:56The place where your photos are – the ones of your mum, sister, son and daughter
29:01on Snapchat – is also the place where
29:03It contains your chats that you think no one will ever see.
29:06If there’s a clause in the US Constitution that mentions slavery in small
29:10print, people wouldn’t notice it
29:12He’s responsible for all those disasters we talked about in the video – so you’re
29:15just a tiny blip in the grand scheme of things
29:17She agreed to his terms without reading them.
29:19Do you agree to them tracking your exact location every second for
29:24US websites in Drones?
29:25You agree to allow apps to use the microphone on your phone
29:31Carry it in your hand the whole time.
29:33They hear every word you say all day long.
29:36For US apps, you agree to the terms and conditions of programmes that
29:40require access to the camera.
29:41I’ve been tracking you on the websites you visit.
29:44The research you’re doing covers your entire financial life.
29:46Your cards, your emails, your messages – almost everything you
29:50use these days is via
29:52US Apps Store.
29:54And besides, you agreed to her terms without even reading them.
29:57Everything is written down.
29:58I’m telling you all this so you keep it in mind and make sure you
30:02don’t let things slip
30:03Especially in lots of places.
30:05You don’t have all the facts, so you don’t know whether you’re
30:08entitled to use it or not.
30:10You might come across a video featuring you that you’d rather not appear in, and
30:13you’re entitled to ask them to remove it by using
30:16Your photo – because you’ve agreed to these terms before uploading it – is
30:19ultimately what I’m trying to get across to you.
30:22These days, the things that can cause you the most harm are the ones that
30:25seem harmless on the surface.
30:26So, take note. That was our story for today.
30:28I hope you like it if you’re interested in these topics.
30:31So I’d advise you to watch this video, in which we talk about the true
30:35cost of your phone’s battery
30:37And how the world’s largest companies…
30:38We see children dying every day, yet people act as if they don’t see it,
30:42because it’s those people who are causing it
30:44Most children are seen as mere commodities in the market.
30:47Let me know what you think in the comments.
30:49Did any of you expect something like this to exist in the world today?
30:53Did anyone ever even imagine it?
30:55Slavery still existed in 2016 in a place like America because of
30:59a law that allows for it.
31:01Six words that nobody paid any attention to.
31:03Before we finish, I’d like to say something.
31:05Praise be to God, who has made us Muslims.
31:08Praise be to God, who created us as believers in a faith that teaches that
31:11there is no distinction between an Arab and a non-Arab except in piety.
31:15That’s all for now, and I’ll see you in a new video.

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