Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 19, 2023

Juneteenth should remind us that human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. The US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers who lost their “property” but not to the formerly enslaved who lost their lives, was legal. Indeed, prison slavery is still legal today.

Do not let legality & power be your measure of morality & justice.

Show threadJeff MoeJun 19, 2023

@QasimRashid

Juneteenth should remind us *SLAVERY IS STILL LEGAL* in the USA. They just toss people in jail first.

Text of USA 13th amendment:

"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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

Show threadHelgi Crookehorne
@jebba @QasimRashid some crimes need millenia of involuntary servitude to repay for, like those Russian terrorists who blew up the dam, now 800k people are gonna have water issues. Unless the pipelines are finished in times and rivers don't evaporate somewhere. Unfortunately no canal digging is required, so those Russian captured terrorists ain't gonna work hard, in cuffs
Jun 19, 2023 at 7:54pmWeb