These statistics make me think of what Jamelle Bouie wrote about the ethics of how sanitized statistics can objectify & dehumanize human life. I hesitated to present statistics of enslaved people in my recent book for that reason. So I tried to do both, statistics w/legal & some social history.
This plane took 35 shackled people from the DC-Baltimore area — 28 men and seven women — to an ICE gulag near Alexandria, Louisiana tonight.
They paint them all white so you don’t know it’s Air Wisconsin.
