In the annals of things that will never happen, this is in the running for never-happening-est. 

The Root, a left-wing magazine oriented toward African Americans, is trying to panic its readers by trotting out a parade of horribles that will include the reinstitution of slavery. 

It’s a question Black Americans have been asking for a while, and now that former President Donald Trump has won back the Oval Office, it’s on everyone’s mind: Can slavery make an official comeback?

It never occurred to me that forced labor would be Trump's primary tool to reduce the cost of food and energy, but I suppose that would be one way to do it. 

My sources in the Drumpf administration tell me that by 2025, Amerikkka is going to be full-on Jim Crow, and that by 2027 — at about the time Drumpf dissolves Congress — you guys aren't going to be paid for your work anymore. These are scary times indeed!

— i/o (@eyeslasho) November 11, 2024

One has to wonder whether left-wingers really believe their fantasies--something that is quite possible given how mentally ill they are--or are they just engaging in a form of intellectual onanism that gives them thrills along the line of telling ghost stories around the campfire.

In 2022, slavery was on the ballot in five states, according to AP News. Talk show host and author Tavis Smiley expressed growing fears of slavery right before the 2016 election. Going back to the 13th Amendment, legal loopholes still allow for slavery today.

Additionally, southern states like Florida have moved to ban teaching students about the horrors of slavery. And although many, like Canadian author Mark Steyn, continue to argue America is “over slavery” and Black folks should just “move on,” slavery is still deeply rooted in the foundation of the nation.

Of course, none of this is true. The whole "Ron DeSantis denies slavery education" meme was ridiculous, and the accusation was wholly made up. Invented out of whole cloth. As for slavery being on the ballot, that, too, is ridiculous. Prison labor is not slavery. 

The Root spoke with Dr. David Johns, CEO of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), who said the playbook for slavery is already in action. “A lot of this sh*t ain’t new,” he said. “The tactics, the strategy, the language, the racism, the white supremacy of it all. We might call it something that feels like new birtherism, but it’s white supremacy at its core.”

Trump has pledged to be a “dictator on day one,” and with a history of banning Muslims, building a southern border wall, and now Project 2025 looking to dismantle educational opportunities for Black people and attack Critical Race Theory, Johns said Black people have the right to fear what the MAGA president has up his sleeve and if his newest trick might include reinstating slavery.

Admittedly, Trump has always told Americans exactly what he plans to do. If you need it written down on paper, it’s all outlined in Project 2025— although the GOP winner denies any connection to the 900-page conservative, Christian manifesto. Johns notes the importance of reading between the Trump campaign’s strategic words as they “have been successful at coopting language and weaponizing government to make it difficult for people to engage in critical discussion or inquiry,” he said.

According to Johns, this is why slavery is possible in 2024. Matter of fact, it’s already taken form. On Tuesday (Nov. 5), California residents voted against Proposition 6, which would’ve changed the state’s constitution and end forced labor in prisons, according to CBS News. In a 54.9 percent majority, Californians took a side, leaving many civil rights activists baffled over the clear legal remanent of chattel slavery.

California voted for slavery? Come on, man. 

All of this is Marxist nonsense, but it serves a purpose: scare the bejeezus out of low-information voters and try to make people look for a savior. 

The Root is the popular voice of the Critical Race Theory crowd, who see white supremacy as the foundation of America. While they don't speak to or for the vast majority of African Americans, the magazine gives you insight into the thinking of the academic and cultural elite's hatred and desire for the destruction of America. 

Also, let’s not forget the Latinx community voted in record turnout for the candidate actively planning mass deportations. “It is much easier for folks to lie to themselves and believe that they can access the white privilege that Trump embodies then it is to do the deep and sometimes difficult work,” Johns said.

And that, he argues, is why Black people must stay vigilant. “We have justifiable mistrust in a country that expects Black women to do custodial care without acknowledgement or Black people to do labor without reparations,” he said.

I'm not even sure what that last sentence means, but it is nothing good. 

CRT, DEI, and all the Critical Theory-inspired ideologies may turn out to be luxury beliefs held by securely prosperous academics and cultural elites, funded through nonprofits and academies, and forced into corporations. But as America retrenches and refocuses on getting our economy going and cracking down on the crackpots, we may see all this idiocy become an endangered species outside of academia. 

Let's hope so, anyway.