Mastodawn

Donald Trump's mass deportation operation has drawn parallels to some of the darkest periods in our history. Guest writer Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff traces how the recent ICE abuses in Minneapolis mirror the trafficking of Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson Scott almost 200 years ago. And the historical echoes are deafening. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/dred-harriet-scott-whipple-ice

Whipple ICE Detention Recalls Trafficking Of Dred Scott

Trump's ICE deployment to Minneapolis echoes one of the darkest periods in our history

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Brian Gordon

@georgetakei

The US Supreme Court, 1820.

"declared that our Constitution was founded on a principle of White Supremacy that held Black Americans “so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Black people could never be made citizens of the United States"