Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed Tuesday that the United States has never been a “racist” country, rejecting a suggestion that she might have trouble becoming the GOP president…
I’d add the movement against reparations as well. So many studies have shown how various types of Jim Crow laws devastated black generational wealth in ways that won’t be fixed for a very long time. And still people think reparations are not owed since they weren’t recently enough a slave.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Really interesting when you look at the dates of those “it’s illegal to ride a horse on Sunday” laws…
I’d add the movement against reparations as well. So many studies have shown how various types of Jim Crow laws devastated black generational wealth in ways that won’t be fixed for a very long time. And still people think reparations are not owed since they weren’t recently enough a slave.
I’ll also add that slavery never stopped. It’s still alive and well and baked into your constitution.
Really interesting when you look at the dates of those “it’s illegal to ride a horse on Sunday” laws…