Dear President-Elect Biden: It's Time to Actually Abolish Slavery in America

https://www.newsweek.com ^ | Michele Goodwin , Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law 12/2/20 at 3:38 PM EST

[Red Badger]

Today, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), announced the Abolition Amendment, to end slavery once and for all in the United States. Legislation like this is long overdue at the state and federal levels.

Slavery was and continues to be a status-based condition in the United States. In its antebellum manifestation, slavery was largely imposed on people of color, despite the indentured servitude of Irish immigrants. Early on, Indigenous peoples suffered brutal conquests of their properties and bodies. In 1637 Pequot Indian boys and men were forcibly exiled into slavery, shipped to the West Indies in a trade for kidnapped and trafficked Black people.

The Pequot women were enslaved in colonies, put to domestic service and also raped. That would not be the last Native American account of enslavement in what is now the United States. However, when Indigenous peoples died off or suffered to the point of no longer being valuable to slavery's insatiable machines, Africans served as effective, expendable substitutes until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Or so people think.

Many people believe the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery for good in 1865, because that's the story Americans were taught to believe. However, this important amendment has a clever loophole. It permits slavery if a person is convicted of a crime. This was the amendment advocated by southern slaveholders and they won. In essence, they conditioned abolition on perpetuating slavery.

If there is any doubt about their intentions, consider the following. Immediately before ratification, legislatures in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and others filled their lawbooks with criminal laws specifically targeting Black people newly freed from bondage. Southern lawmakers made it a crime if more than a couple of Black people stood on a corner, creating laws of vagrancy.

[Thank You Rush]

I knew I shouldn’t have wondered about the LSRJ in the article- sounds like a disease. Well, maybe it is...It stands for:

Law Students for Reproductive Justice!!

Now that I have that out of the way, I’ll continue to be curious and see if there is a bio on her...

[Thank You Rush]

“”Reproductive justice links reproductive rights with the social, political and economic inequalities that affect a woman’s ability to access reproductive health care services. Core components of reproductive justice include equal access to safe abortion, affordable contraceptives and comprehensive sex education, as well as freedom from sexual violence.””

Can’t find a bio on her. Makes one wonder WHY NOT?? There is nothing these loons are afraid of people knowing..

Wonder what she wanted to be before she grew up?

[Red Badger]

LSRJ = Law Students for Reproductive Justice...............

[Thank You Rush]

I found that - sure tells us a lot, doesn’t it? Probably as much as any student gets out of it.

[markman46]

OMG... more back women get abortions through Medi-cal, then anyone else.. this UCI prof needs to get something new to rail about