SPLC delegation testifies to UN about 'systemic racism' in US, 'picking cotton' in prison

A four-person delegation with the Southern Poverty Law Center testified before a United Nations committee in Switzerland about alleged systemic racism in the United States.

Winn also claimed that he and other Black inmates were made to pick cotton at the facility built on a former slave plantation, and that such discrimination continues there.

"As soon as I reached Angola, I went from reading about slavery in my history book to becoming an actual slave," Winn told the committee. "My first mandatory job was literally picking cotton. While the Black prisoners spent eight hours a day of hard labor in the cotton fields, White prisoners primarily worked inside doing jobs like maintenance and laundry. This is still in practice today."