These Insane Amendments Almost Became Law

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Following its successful ratification, Sec. of State #WilliamSeward announced on #ThisDayInHistory in 1865 that the #13thAmendment had been adopted. This is commonly understood as banning #slavery in the United States, but it merely shifts slavery to the #PrisonIndustrialComplex.

Heard a dumbass fellow Boomer say how Americans are generous, giving people. Oh yeah? Then how come it was such a battle to get some of us to give the slaves their freedom?

#resist #blacklivesMattter #slavery #13thamendment

Why not roll back the #15thAmendment and #13thAmendment while they're at it!! WTF!

Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth promotes repealing #WomensRightToVote

by Judd Legum
Aug 11, 2025

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19thAmendment, which guarantees women the right to vote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with #ChristianNationalist pastor #DougWilson, who Brown reports believes 'women shouldn't be able to vote.'

"Brown speaks to two pastors in Wilson's Idaho church who agree with Wilson. 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households,' pastor Toby Sumpter says. 'And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote.' (This is the model also advocated by Wilson.) Pastor Jared Longshore says he supports the repeal of the 19th Amendment because 'the current system is not good for humans.'

"Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (#CREC), in Tennessee. When a CREC branch recently opened in Washington, DC, Hegseth attended. Longshore delivered the sermon.

"Hegseth's response to the video — 'All of Christ for All of Life' — is a Christian nationalist slogan used frequently by Wilson. It stands for the idea that Christianity should dominate all aspects of life, including government.
In response to media inquiries, the Pentagon reiterated Hegseth's admiration for Wilson and his ideology. 'The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings,' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.

Beyond repealing women's #VotingRights, what are Wilson's 'writing and teachings'? Let's review.

"Wilson argues that slavery benefited blacks and whites and was 'based on mutual affection'

"Wilson has sought to recast slavery in the pre-Civil War South as a mutually beneficial relationship in many cases. In a 1996 pamphlet co-written by Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, he argued that '[s]lavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity.' According to Wilson, '[b]ecause of its predominantly #patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.' He asserts that "[t]here has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' which he attributes to 'the predominance of Christianity.'

Wilson claims that '[s]lave life was to [the slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.' He urges people not to 'overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites.'

"In Wilson's 2005 book, Black and Tan, he defends #SouthernSlavery as It Was, and writes 'that slavery was far more benign in practice than it was made to appear in the literature of the #abolitionists.'' He also claims that slavery was biblically justified, claiming that 'the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground.' "

Read more:
https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegseths

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/GquRa

#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead #TheKnotsAndCrosses #Dystopia

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promotes repealing women's right to vote

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote.

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@burnoutqueen Not at all illegal, just requires a bit of extra work.

#13thAmendment

Black People & US Birthright Citizenship
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/03/black-people-us-birthright-citizenship/
If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley. By Margaret Kimberly Black Agenda Report “I‘m just saying if we…
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Black People & US Birthright Citizenship

If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley. By Margaret Kimberly Black Agenda Report "I'm just saying if we had the legal right to do i

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January 31, 1865 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed (119-56) the 13th constitutional amendment which abolished slavery, and sent it to the states for ratification (three-quarters of the states would do so by the end of the year). The Kentucky legislature didn't vote to ratify until 1976. Mississippi's legislature finally ratified it in 1995 but failed to submit the paperwork to the federal government until 2013.

“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.”

#13thAmendment

December 18, 1865 - Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
#13thAmendment
Forced Prison Labor Is on the Ballot

It’s shocking for many of us to learn that forced labor is actually legal as punishment for a crime. Ballot measures in Nevada and California this Election Day would outlaw forced labor in prisons.