Human Trafficking Part Three- Diddy? I bet he did!
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Thanks for hanging in there everyone.
I promise we’re getting back to the story in a minute, and I also promise that this was essential to the story itself! It’s also important and worthy in its own right.
I’m still sorry.
Review
In Human Trafficking Part One, I established that American marriage is human trafficking.
In Part Two, we looked at the global prevalence of slavery, and widely held beliefs about marriage. Through this examination, I revealed how the Cult of the Ego birthed THE PATRIARCHY, and explained why women continue to participate in the patriarchy and its oppression of others and themselves.
Really, I could stop there. I made the points I need to be salient for understanding me. There’s a punchline point though, and I feel it’s my intellectual duty to give you the goods.
Thomas Jefferson is P. Diddy
…on an institutional level of course.
Sally Hemings was serially raped by her owner, Thomas Jefferson, a wealthy and powerful man who could act with impunity, and did so. Despite Jefferson’s public pro-equality stance, proclaiming the slave trade to be an “assemblage of horrors,” brutality and cruelty set the tone of his personal practices.
Let’s take a quick look at this assemblage of horrors.
Jefferson’s fight for equality to stretch to all men (still just men though) resonated so loudly, states like Massachusetts abolished slavery based on his rhetoric. But in the span of 10 years, from 1780-90, he did an about face. He fell silent on the topic for quite some time before turning to champion the enterprise for commerce.
Jefferson was larger than life, and he fell in love with his own power. His direct involvement in the slave trade, and “discipline” of his own private slaves (over 600 in his lifetime) desensitized him to the horror of it, and he became as cruel as any.
He was well established in human trafficking, but he didn’t invent it. He inherited his place in it. His father was a well-established plantation owner.
All of the slaves at Monticello were related, each having descended from a single Hemings matriarch. She was breeding stock and bore 12 of her owners children, several of whom he sold to Jefferson. Eventually, every slave he owned had come from her.
In 1792, Jefferson discovered that he was turning quite a profit on slave babies, and he sought to increase their numbers without buying any more. By the time of the Civil War, slaves were the second most valuable capital asset in the United States.
History documents the point at which he just stops seeing slaves as people altogether. They became an experiment in enterprise. Not only could he turn a profit on babies (the documents suggest that they were raised to the age of two, but that’s still babies y’all), but he had a free labor generator which became several individual enterprises all staffed by his slave breeding practices.
Jefferson an intricate hierarchy amongst his slaves, and everyone knew how they ranked. Those in favor got rewards and power. Those out of favor endured conditions more like a concentration camp. (This hierarchy is how you get Ye. This is also the structure we see reproduced in the dysfunctional family roles in Family Scapegoat Syndrome)
He made his foreman whip his family members, and when he could no longer control them, he hired the most brutal of overseers to deliver whippings. There are written accounts of the profits improving due to the regularity of whippings of young boys at his nail factory. It’s also well documented that this documented was initially covered up to preserve Jefferson’s image.
The brutality that has been documented against slaves in the colonial times, is immeasurable, and the worst of behaviors were covered up.
Sexual abuse was a given. It’s what women were for. It’s what men deserved.
Jefferson sold children to men, who would be used for sexual gratification, a practice he also participated in. This trafficking ring was well established, and it ties directly to Columbus. What Columbus started, Jefferson continued. (In fairness, the slave trade predated Columbus, but he doesn’t deserve any fairness, so…)
These were the Washington elites, the powerful business men of the south, the oligarchs of a brave new world without all of the restriction that had been so suffocating to their efforts in England.
They kept secrets and struck deals. They padded their own pockets, and the pockets of their friends. They could get away with anything, and they did.
Interracial rape was widely practiced and condoned. White women knew what their husbands were doing, and there was nothing they could do about it either. I can only imagine how many wives took this out on the very same slaves that were being raped.
In contrast, mixed race marriages weren’t allowed in Virginia until Loving V. Virginia 1967.
Women were not the only ones being raped.
There are historical accounts of owners forcing sexual behavior beyond their on rape of their slaves. Accounts describe orgies at the forced instruction of masters, where owners would share their own slaves with friends.
Whites of the South knew they could do anything to a black body and get away with it.
Anybody who followed the murder of George Floyd, or any of the names of victims represented in the Black Lives Matter movement, knows that this has not changed. The coverups, and abuse are built right into the system.
The human trafficking of the colonial times never ended. Slavery was abolished but these behaviors run too deep. As new prominent figures would arise, they would be introduced to this world of “luxury” that they “deserve.”
It adapted. It transformed. It got creative and innovative.
So Where Do We Find This Same Circle Today?
In fact, human trafficking is so woven into the fabric of American consciousness that we didn’t even mind that it was done right in front of us.
If you turned on any awards show, or Entertainment Tonight it was prominently paraded. Really, all you had to do was watch the news. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous put luxury and debauchery on display, dangled in front of the American public as the potential for the American Dream.
Goals.
The American Dream, and with it the Bootstrap Myth, were the promise that in America, you could transcend your position. In order to access money, fame, celebrity, status, you had to interact with this trafficking contrivance. You have to play your role and hope it doesn’t consume you.
We were all groomed.
Pretty Baby came out in 1978, detailing a preteen prostitute. Nobody questioned that men do what men do.
The Blue Lagoon, was only two years later.
Until very recently, with the rise of ethical pornography, these themes were heavily reinforced in porn industry. For those reading who are of age, I highly recommend you look up any porn that isn’t specifically created as “ethical porn,” especially if you never have, and you don’t even need to watch a video.
Just look through the offerings. How many are physically abusive? Barely legal? Incest fantasies? Casting couch or other abuses of power? The problem with pornography isn’t that it’s sex, it’s that it uses trafficked humans to reinforce trafficking culture.
This is where rape culture comes from
Confessions of a Child Bride details Courtney Stodden’s marriage to Doug Hutchison. I 10/10 recommend watching it, as Courtney explains how she was conditioned to participate in her own enslavement.
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV shows the very dirty underbelly of children being trafficked into acting.
Acting is a trafficking industry.
In addition, trafficking that took place at Nickelodeon resulted in media that sexualized the behavior of our children. It made it cool and funny for children to say and do sexual things, and pushed it as safe children’s programming.
Remember Britney Spears?
Or Kesha…
Really, you can watch the biography of just about any famous person in the United States, and if you know what you’re looking at, it’s there. IYKYK, YK?
For those not seeking fame, many of our current employee-boss dynamics come from those plantations, and the factories that treated white immigrants disposably. Keeping things unbearable makes that American Dream look pretty good right? It feeds the trafficking pipeline.
People including Thomas Jefferson, Jeffrey Epstien, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Harvey Weinstein, and P. Diddy have all embraced their roles in this system of trafficking.
The participants are too many to name.
You might recall the Me Too #MeToo movement, which addressed the manifestation of this same behavior throughout the entertainment industries, but shined light on the business sector as well.
I hope that I’ve been clear that women are not the only victims. Trans people disappear constantly. All minorities are subject to trafficability. Anyone below the poverty line is trafficable, and so are our daughters if they don’t make their own patriarchal bargain.
We talk all around it, but it’s time that we call all of this what it actually is.
Just because it predates us, does not give it the right to continue.
Just because we’ve never known a time without it, doesn’t mean that we can’t identify, understand, and dismantle it.
When we talk about cycle breaking THIS is what we’re up against.
And Epstein didn’t kill himself.
These monsters are the men who built our country, the ones who made and continue to make the rules, and the ones who continue to defend inequality.
Operation **Reclaim** Loveland 
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