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We still haven't fixed things caused by putting chattel slavery into the Constitution almost 150 years after a civil war.
by stevenwoo 8mo ago
We still haven't fixed things caused by putting chattel slavery into the Constitution almost 150 years after a civil war.
- ceejayoz 8mo agoHell, we deliberately left it in. > 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.
- pavlov 8mo agoWell, that's why I wrote "not impossible" rather than "likely"... These things can be fixed even though it's difficult. Sometimes the pressure just boils over. Americans are a lot more defeatist about their politics than in many other democratic countries.