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Posted on 12/03/2020 6:55:58 AM PST by 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.
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Oh, please.
How many slaves are there in the U.S. today?
Such bloody drama queens.
Ending Slavery in America? I agree.
No TAXATION without REPRESENTATION. Voter fraud means no representation, just taxation. End the slavery of voter fraud.
The government telling you how much you can charge, how much you get paid, and how much in taxes you pay without a legitimate election, is Slavery.
AKA, SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM......................
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Show me a chain gang today.
If you go and read the rest of the article, you will see that the slavery she is talking about is much more subtle than the old chain gangs............
We do not know. There are probably millions of slaves, but the practice is called "human trafficking" these days. Although it is illegal, our politicians (especially those on the left) rabidly support it. Biden even made the support of human trafficking a part of his campaign.
Newsweek is barking up the wrong tree when they call on Biden to abolish slavery (and redefining criminals doing labor as slavery). Biden is part of the problem, and has been for a long time.
While we are at it....can we end all Indian Wars as well? Also, can we just end the Korean War, period?
Does that mean all covid lockdowns will be eliminated?
“How many slaves are there in the U.S. today?”
The irony of the whole thing.
The NWO - Deep State would make us all slaves - social credits, mandatory vaccines, facial-chip ID’s..
The only transition there will be is Biden going to either an old folks home, or prison.
One could always Sioux for peace. But seriously...
Also, can we just end the Korean War, period?
There is one person in politics who wanted to end the Korean War, and he is getting fraudulently usurped. For everyone else, as Big Brother tells us, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
One could always Sioux for peace. But seriously...
Also, can we just end the Korean War, period?
There is one person in politics who wanted to end the Korean War, and he is getting fraudulently usurped. For everyone else, as Big Brother tells us, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
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“...TAXATION without REPRESENTATION...”
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That’s exactly what deficit spending is.
Some future, unknown, unnamed, nonvoting taxpayer
is forced to devote their time/money to pay the bill
for something they had no say-so in implementing.
>>How many slaves are there in the U.S. today?
Depends on if you’re counting tax slaves or not.
“Dear President-Elect Biden”
Who’s that?
Well, there was that example of that one slave in the White House who worked for Bill Clinton as an intern and was used by the master for sexual favors under the guise of the position of slave to be elevated.
HUH? Wonder if they could be any more specific? Astounding.
Attention getting is what motivates MOST people today - they don’t care how ridiculous they appear..They avoid DIRECT evidence of such a claim!
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