#newworld — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #newworld, aggregated by home.social.
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Trade deal levels playing field for Australian wine – Drinks International https://www.diningandcooking.com/2622209/trade-deal-levels-playing-field-for-australian-wine-drinks-international/ #Australia #AustralianWine #AustralianWineNew #Challenging #dodd #DoddReports #eu #market #MarketRemainsChallenging #new #NewWorld #NewWorldOli #news #oli #OliDodd #OliDoddReports #Remains #RemainsChallenging #reports #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia #world #WorldOli #WorldOliDodd
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When life and the world starts to resemble a poorly written James Bond novel, remember to seize the opportunity to redefine your life in glorious fashion.
As the US is bringing back legal piracy, consider what other opportunities await the heroes of tomorrow.
Notions of normalcy are quaint artifacts of the past - this is a time of upheaval and great change.
Are you going to keep being the timid little factotum the billionaires want you to be?
#live #life #lifeIsStrange #greatExpectations #opportunity #newWorld #resist #rise #change #build #dream #dare #kickASS
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When life and the world starts to resemble a poorly written James Bond novel, remember to seize the opportunity to redefine your life in glorious fashion.
As the US is bringing back legal piracy, consider what other opportunities await the heroes of tomorrow.
Notions of normalcy are quaint artifacts of the past - this is a time of upheaval and great change.
Are you going to keep being the timid little factotum the billionaires want you to be?
#live #life #lifeIsStrange #greatExpectations #opportunity #newWorld #resist #rise #change #build #dream #dare #kickASS
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When life and the world starts to resemble a poorly written James Bond novel, remember to seize the opportunity to redefine your life in glorious fashion.
As the US is bringing back legal piracy, consider what other opportunities await the heroes of tomorrow.
Notions of normalcy are quaint artifacts of the past - this is a time of upheaval and great change.
Are you going to keep being the timid little factotum the billionaires want you to be?
#live #life #lifeIsStrange #greatExpectations #opportunity #newWorld #resist #rise #change #build #dream #dare #kickASS
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When life and the world starts to resemble a poorly written James Bond novel, remember to seize the opportunity to redefine your life in glorious fashion.
As the US is bringing back legal piracy, consider what other opportunities await the heroes of tomorrow.
Notions of normalcy are quaint artifacts of the past - this is a time of upheaval and great change.
Are you going to keep being the timid little factotum the billionaires want you to be?
#live #life #lifeIsStrange #greatExpectations #opportunity #newWorld #resist #rise #change #build #dream #dare #kickASS
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250 Years of Hungarian Contributions to the USA — A Report on the 50th Annual AHEA Conference https://www.byteseu.com/1964370/ #AcademicDiplomacy #AmericanHungarianEducatorsAssociation #AmericanHungarianFoundation #Aviation #CarpathianBasin #Cleveland #DiasporaHungarians #Diplomacy #FolkSongs #Gimi2US #HungarianAmericanIdentity #Hungary #InternationalRelations #NewWorld #Science #ScienceDiplomacy #SocialSolidarity #USA
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MOP Podcast 560: #EverQuest #EQLegends, #CamelotUnchained, #NewWorld, #VRising, #Loftia, #TESBlades, #WorldofWarcraft, #Marvel Heroes, and more #MMORPG #MMO news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2026/03/31/massively-op-podcast-episode-560-everquest-legends-never-die -
"Better a known rival than an unpredictable friend." - Futurist Jim Carroll
There's a lot of talk online about what happens when partnerships become unstable.
When one side of a partnership slides over the abyss of rationality, into a mindset of madness.
When what was once reliable becomes volatile, when the predictable becomes uncertain, and the rational, irrational.
And the lesson is that you have to pick your partners carefully.
Strategically.
Wisely.
With caution.
With due diligence.
With both eyes wide open and elbows up.
You'll never move forward if you keep trying to rely on a relationship that has become untenable.
Partnership involves predictable, rational action.
And when that disappears, so should the reliance on the partnership - because it becomes time to form new ones.
Those partnerships might involve choices that, in an old world, might not have made sense but, in a new world, demand attention.
That's simply reality!
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Futurist Jim Carroll often speaks about the importance of organizations to develop the capability for 'fast partnerships.' He realizes it now applies to nations, too.
**#Partnership** **#Strategy** **#Alliances** **#Trust** **#Reliability** **#Choices** **#Change** **#Wisdom** **#Caution** **#Reality** **#Relationships** **#Stability** **#Leadership** **#Adaptation** **#NewWorld** **#DueDiligence** **#Rationality** **#Forward** **#Decisions** **#Resilience** **#Unpredictable** **#Strategic** **#Eyes** **#Elbows** **#Onwards**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-better-a-known-rival-than-an-unpredictable-friend/
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"#WalnutTrees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family #Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts. All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not the hickories (Carya) in the same family.
"The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate #OldWorld from southeast #Europe east to #Japan, and more widely in the #NewWorld from southeast #Canada west to #California and south to #Argentina.
"Edible walnuts, which are consumed worldwide, are usually harvested from cultivated varieties of the species Juglans regia. China produces half of the world total of walnuts."
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MOP Podcast 541: #ProjectGhost, #NewWorld, #Warhammer, #Pantheon, #Necesse, #BitCraft, #LOTRO, #WorldofWarcraft, #RIFT, #GuildWars2, #PetitPlanet, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/11/11/massively-op-podcast-episode-541-cozy-up-to-the-future -
And Also, Who Even Cares About Halo And Lord Of The Rings These Days
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/aftermath-hours-podcast-halo-white-house-trump-vance
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MOP Podcast 538: #NewWorld, #ProjectGhost, #BPSR, #ReaperActual, #Wizard101, #WorldofWarcraft, #LOTRO, #FFXIV, #Warframe, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/14/massively-op-podcast-episode-538-new-world-nighthaven-terrors -
MOP Podcast 538: #NewWorld, #ProjectGhost, #BPSR, #ReaperActual, #Wizard101, #WorldofWarcraft, #LOTRO, #FFXIV, #Warframe, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/14/massively-op-podcast-episode-538-new-world-nighthaven-terrors -
MOP Podcast 538: #NewWorld, #ProjectGhost, #BPSR, #ReaperActual, #Wizard101, #WorldofWarcraft, #LOTRO, #FFXIV, #Warframe, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/14/massively-op-podcast-episode-538-new-world-nighthaven-terrors -
MOP Podcast 538: #NewWorld, #ProjectGhost, #BPSR, #ReaperActual, #Wizard101, #WorldofWarcraft, #LOTRO, #FFXIV, #Warframe, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/14/massively-op-podcast-episode-538-new-world-nighthaven-terrors -
MOP Podcast 538: #NewWorld, #ProjectGhost, #BPSR, #ReaperActual, #Wizard101, #WorldofWarcraft, #LOTRO, #FFXIV, #Warframe, and more #MMORPG news!
📻 https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/14/massively-op-podcast-episode-538-new-world-nighthaven-terrors -
Morning Folks. Yesterday I had to deal with more "Death Stuff," which is wildly draining. I also talk about the start of #Diablo4 season 10 as a druid, #DestinyRising with a friend, and easing back into #NewWorld.
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"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism
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In case you wanted to look at the results of the #GiveDirectly #UniversalBasicIncome from 2023 study yourself:
"Early findings from the world’s largest #UBI study"
"Both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective. The lump sum enabled big investments and the guarantee of 12 years of UBI encouraged savings and risk-taking."
https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/
#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicInvestment #TaxTheRich #TaxWealth #DignityForAll #CostOfLiving #poverty #politics #NewWorld
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With much love, great joy, and infinite gratitude, I share this video from Corina White Feather, who birthed the Remembrance Sign from subtle energy planes into material Earth plane. 💛🙏🌍🙏💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKw_96vs_9I#CorinaWhiteFeather #Remembrancesign #iampresence #shift #awareness #iampresence #globalshift #globalawakening #takeaction #responsibility #NewWorld #lemurianhighpriestess #SoulMission #Soulpurpose #change #earthshift #earth #authentic #Remembrance
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Indeed USA and Brazil were built by destroying pre-Encounter @ecology
"Successful colonization of New England depended heavily on domestic animals. […]
"At least at first, friction between these unlikely neighbors grew less from the very different ideas that informed Indian and English concepts of property than from the behavior of livestock. Let loose to forage in the woods, the animals wandered away from English towns into Indian cornfields, ate their fill, and moved on."
Historian Virginia Anderson in her book "King Philip's Herds: Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England" https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/?cd=true&bdtext=feral-atlas-and-the-more-than-human-anthropocene&rr=true&cdex=true&text=fq-creatures-of-conquest&ttype=essay
#FeralAtlas #colonization #settlers #livestock #NewEngland #cattle #corn #agriculture #colonialism #NewWorld #puritans #Conquest #methane #history #AmericanHistory #IndianAmericans #WhiteAmericans #Europeans #English #domestic #America #emissions
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The Remembrance Sign is now a 'CoCreator' on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/let-it-sink-in-121709641
#globalshift #globalawakening #shift #awareness #CorinaWhiteFeather #SoulMission #Soulpurpose #change #takeaction #shiftearth #earthshift #earth #authentic #responsibility #NewWorld #Remembrance #Remembrancesign #iampresence
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The Remembrance Sign is now a 'CoCreator' on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/receive-support-121397708
#globalshift #globalawakening #shift #awareness #CorinaWhiteFeather #SoulMission #Soulpurpose #change #takeaction #shiftearth #earthshift #earth #authentic #responsibility #NewWorld #Remembrance #Remembrancesign #iampresence
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I've been exploring and CoCreating with the Remembrance Sign as part of my spiritual path for the past couple of years. It now has its own Instagram page if you want to explore it for yourself.
https://www.instagram.com/remembrance_sign
#globalshift #globalawakening #shift #awareness #CorinaWhiteFeather #SoulMission #Soulpurpose #change #takeaction #shiftearth #earthshift #earth #authentic #responsibility #NewWorld #Remembrance #Remembrancesign #iampresence
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"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
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"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
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"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
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"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
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"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
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"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
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"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
[…]
"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
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"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
[…]
"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
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“The repeated stylizations of the body—everyday acts and gestures—are themselves performatives, producing the gendered identity of which they are thought to be the expressions.”(Alberti, 2013, p. 95)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @history @histodons
#feminisms #performance #performativity #JudithButler #fluidity #Conquest #sodomy #LGBTQ #sociology #alphabetMafia #bias #Drag #NewWorld #Contact #sex
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It seems to me that most of the books contain too much excessive information. Maybe it is a modern thing, maybe it is just me. So what do you reckon? How do you read these days?
#book #books #reading #readings #modern #reader #learner #learn #education #improving #betterworld #thoughts #yourthoughts #philosophy #edu #newage #newworld #mutualaid #helping #science #sci #figuringout #newbooks #readinglist #craziness
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Let's try this #introduction thing here.
👋 Hi, I am rokku, a 39+ old human in the #autistic and #adhd spectrum. As a person I behave as a #INTJ or #5w6. I don't use a #gender for me but I know there are a lot of them #agender #nonbinary. If you are talking to me, I prefer you not using pronouns but my name. If you want to use pronouns then use xe/xem/xyr.
I am #sysadmin for life and #polyglot #developer for 20+ years. I love #selfhosting things. I work in the #hosting business. I was formerly #selfemployed and plan to do so again.
I do #debian servers and #arch for my workstation. All other distros are bad, especially #ubuntu (yes i know its from debian but with ugly things in it)
My beloved languages are #perl, #raku and #nim. But I do much more of them like #cpp, #java, #python, #rust and what not. I like compiled languages which give you the ability to shoot you in the foot, because this is the way we learn things.
I like #old #school things, how we did it in the past. I did not stay behind, but new things must proof themself.
For me #respect needs to be earned and is not given for free. I am only interested in people that esteem me and so do I.
My #vocation is #IT and all the stuff around it.
I'm a former member of the pirate party germany (#Piratenpartei Deutschland). I was member of the Landesverband Bayern as a General Secretary and Treasurer. I am founder of the #Bezirksverband #Mittelfranken and also member of the board as a General Secretary.
Not enough, I am a #metroidvana, #megaman, #dragonball #nerd and #gamer starting with an Super NES console long time ago. I prefer the #xbox over the #playstation. I prefer games like #blasphemous, #warframe, #newworld, #doom and much more as I even could write here.
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#EuropeanColonialization, #Colonialization, #Genocide, #NewWorld, #Capitalism, #Imperialism, #Taino, #TainoPeople, #Carribean, #EuropeanRacism, #EthnicCleansing
Annihilation by Labor
New research suggests, that even though most indigenous people in the colonies died of european diseases, way more people died in the mines then expected and those who died by a disease had a lack of immune system because of the daily physical exploitation and destruction.
Citation Wikipedia:
"While the populations of Europe rebounded following the devastating population decline associated with the Black Death, there was no such rebound for the indigenous populations of the Caribbean. He concludes that, even though the Spanish were aware of deadly diseases such as smallpox, there is no mention of them in the New World until 1519, meaning perhaps they didn't spread as fast as initially believed, and that unlike Europeans, the indigenous populations were subjected to slavery, exploitation, and forced labor in gold and silver mines on an enormous scale." (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno)
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150 Years after the 13th Amendment
After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.
What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.
13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.
Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.
Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.
It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour. Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.
1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}
The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)
Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:
Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.
Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.
“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.
Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.
In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.
In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.
Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.
Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:
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As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.
“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”
The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015
“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”
“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.
“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…
“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”
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Preceding
Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
Vatican against Opponents of immigration
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Additional reading
- Stand Up
- Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
- Religion, fundamentalism and murder
- Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
- Why I’m Angry
- A last note concerning civil rights
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- White Australian Panel Fails To Grasp The Concept Of Racism In Discussion About The Word “Negro”
- “Adding Insult With Significant Physical Injury”: The 2016 Campaign Joke That’s No Longer Funny — Just Violent
- Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
- Trouble on the border?
- America’s Berlin Wall
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- Trump proposes increase of fees on Mexican visas to build Mexico border wall
- We Already Have a Wall, Mr. Trump
- “Donald Trump’s hot minute at the US-Mexico border”
- Trump: Border Patrol Union Backed Out Because They Were ‘Petrified’ To Say What’s Happening At Border
- Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
- Donald Trump fights back
- Why the Donald is dangerous
- “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
- Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
- Refugees on Our Doorstep
- The Draft Riots of 1863
- How well do you know your American history?
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
- More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
- 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
- If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
- Hallowed Ground Retained
- Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
- The New Slavery
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Related articles
- San Marino 2015 Abraham Lincoln 10 Euro Silver Coin (coinweek.com)
- Pope Francis Inspires Black Catholics, Despite Complicated Church History On Race (wnyc.org)
- Pope praises activists Day, Merton for shaping US values (chippewa.com)
- New Agreement Keeps Civil-War-era House Open To The Public (baltimore.cbslocal.com)
- How SCOTUS perverted the “equal protection” clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (siriuscoffee.com)
- The Mero Moment: Kim Davis – September 17, 2015 (utahpoliticohub.com)
- Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes (boingboing.net)
- What Ben Carson gets right about a religious test for office (theweek.com)
- How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment (theatlantic.com)
- Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Responds to Carson (truthandaction.org)
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150 Years after the 13th Amendment
After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.
What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.
13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.
Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.
Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.
It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour. Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.
1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}
The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)
Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:
Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.
Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.
“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.
Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.
In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.
In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.
Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.
Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:
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*
As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.
“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”
The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015
“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”
“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.
“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…
“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”
+
Preceding
Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
Vatican against Opponents of immigration
++
Additional reading
- Stand Up
- Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
- Religion, fundamentalism and murder
- Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
- Why I’m Angry
- A last note concerning civil rights
+++
Further related articles
- Obama-McCain-latina. June 15, 2008
- White Australian Panel Fails To Grasp The Concept Of Racism In Discussion About The Word “Negro”
- “Adding Insult With Significant Physical Injury”: The 2016 Campaign Joke That’s No Longer Funny — Just Violent
- Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
- Trouble on the border?
- America’s Berlin Wall
- Think it’s time to admit Donald Trump is right about Mexico but of course you won’t…
- Trump proposes increase of fees on Mexican visas to build Mexico border wall
- We Already Have a Wall, Mr. Trump
- “Donald Trump’s hot minute at the US-Mexico border”
- Trump: Border Patrol Union Backed Out Because They Were ‘Petrified’ To Say What’s Happening At Border
- Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
- Donald Trump fights back
- Why the Donald is dangerous
- “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
- Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
- Refugees on Our Doorstep
- The Draft Riots of 1863
- How well do you know your American history?
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
- More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
- 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
- If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
- Hallowed Ground Retained
- Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
- The New Slavery
+++
Related articles
- San Marino 2015 Abraham Lincoln 10 Euro Silver Coin (coinweek.com)
- Pope Francis Inspires Black Catholics, Despite Complicated Church History On Race (wnyc.org)
- Pope praises activists Day, Merton for shaping US values (chippewa.com)
- New Agreement Keeps Civil-War-era House Open To The Public (baltimore.cbslocal.com)
- How SCOTUS perverted the “equal protection” clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (siriuscoffee.com)
- The Mero Moment: Kim Davis – September 17, 2015 (utahpoliticohub.com)
- Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes (boingboing.net)
- What Ben Carson gets right about a religious test for office (theweek.com)
- How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment (theatlantic.com)
- Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Responds to Carson (truthandaction.org)
Rate this:
#13AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #14AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #15AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #1865 #2015 #AbrahamLincoln #AfricanAmericans #AmericanSettlers #AnnieDavis #CheapLabour #CivilWarAmendments #ColouredPeople #DonaldTrump #EmancipationProclamation1863_ #JimCrowLaws #Maryland #MexicanBorder #Negro #NewWorld #PioneersOfNorthAmerica #PotterStewart #RacialDiscrimination #RacialSegregation #ReconstructionPeriod #Segregation #SexTrafficking #Slavery #USCivilRightsActOf1875 #UnitedStatesConstitution #WhitePeople #WhiteRace
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150 Years after the 13th Amendment
After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.
What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.
13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.
Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.
Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.
It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour. Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.
1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}
The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)
Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:
Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.
Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.
“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.
Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.
In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.
In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.
Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.
Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:
*
*
As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.
“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”
The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015
“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”
“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.
“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…
“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”
+
Preceding
Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
Vatican against Opponents of immigration
++
Additional reading
- Stand Up
- Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
- Religion, fundamentalism and murder
- Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
- Why I’m Angry
- A last note concerning civil rights
+++
Further related articles
- Obama-McCain-latina. June 15, 2008
- White Australian Panel Fails To Grasp The Concept Of Racism In Discussion About The Word “Negro”
- “Adding Insult With Significant Physical Injury”: The 2016 Campaign Joke That’s No Longer Funny — Just Violent
- Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
- Trouble on the border?
- America’s Berlin Wall
- Think it’s time to admit Donald Trump is right about Mexico but of course you won’t…
- Trump proposes increase of fees on Mexican visas to build Mexico border wall
- We Already Have a Wall, Mr. Trump
- “Donald Trump’s hot minute at the US-Mexico border”
- Trump: Border Patrol Union Backed Out Because They Were ‘Petrified’ To Say What’s Happening At Border
- Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
- Donald Trump fights back
- Why the Donald is dangerous
- “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
- Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
- Refugees on Our Doorstep
- The Draft Riots of 1863
- How well do you know your American history?
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
- More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
- 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
- If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
- Hallowed Ground Retained
- Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
- The New Slavery
+++
Related articles
- San Marino 2015 Abraham Lincoln 10 Euro Silver Coin (coinweek.com)
- Pope Francis Inspires Black Catholics, Despite Complicated Church History On Race (wnyc.org)
- Pope praises activists Day, Merton for shaping US values (chippewa.com)
- New Agreement Keeps Civil-War-era House Open To The Public (baltimore.cbslocal.com)
- How SCOTUS perverted the “equal protection” clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (siriuscoffee.com)
- The Mero Moment: Kim Davis – September 17, 2015 (utahpoliticohub.com)
- Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes (boingboing.net)
- What Ben Carson gets right about a religious test for office (theweek.com)
- How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment (theatlantic.com)
- Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Responds to Carson (truthandaction.org)
Rate this:
#13AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #14AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #15AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #1865 #2015 #AbrahamLincoln #AfricanAmericans #AmericanSettlers #AnnieDavis #CheapLabour #CivilWarAmendments #ColouredPeople #DonaldTrump #EmancipationProclamation1863_ #JimCrowLaws #Maryland #MexicanBorder #Negro #NewWorld #PioneersOfNorthAmerica #PotterStewart #RacialDiscrimination #RacialSegregation #ReconstructionPeriod #Segregation #SexTrafficking #Slavery #USCivilRightsActOf1875 #UnitedStatesConstitution #WhitePeople #WhiteRace
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150 Years after the 13th Amendment
After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.
What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.
13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.
Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.
Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.
It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour. Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.
1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}
The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)
Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:
Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.
Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.
“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.
Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.
In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.
In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.
Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.
Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:
*
*
As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.
“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”
The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015
“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”
“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.
“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…
“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”
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Preceding
Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
Vatican against Opponents of immigration
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Additional reading
- Stand Up
- Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
- Religion, fundamentalism and murder
- Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
- Why I’m Angry
- A last note concerning civil rights
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- White Australian Panel Fails To Grasp The Concept Of Racism In Discussion About The Word “Negro”
- “Adding Insult With Significant Physical Injury”: The 2016 Campaign Joke That’s No Longer Funny — Just Violent
- Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
- Trouble on the border?
- America’s Berlin Wall
- Think it’s time to admit Donald Trump is right about Mexico but of course you won’t…
- Trump proposes increase of fees on Mexican visas to build Mexico border wall
- We Already Have a Wall, Mr. Trump
- “Donald Trump’s hot minute at the US-Mexico border”
- Trump: Border Patrol Union Backed Out Because They Were ‘Petrified’ To Say What’s Happening At Border
- Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
- Donald Trump fights back
- Why the Donald is dangerous
- “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
- Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
- Refugees on Our Doorstep
- The Draft Riots of 1863
- How well do you know your American history?
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
- More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
- 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
- If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
- Hallowed Ground Retained
- Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
- The New Slavery
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- San Marino 2015 Abraham Lincoln 10 Euro Silver Coin (coinweek.com)
- Pope Francis Inspires Black Catholics, Despite Complicated Church History On Race (wnyc.org)
- Pope praises activists Day, Merton for shaping US values (chippewa.com)
- New Agreement Keeps Civil-War-era House Open To The Public (baltimore.cbslocal.com)
- How SCOTUS perverted the “equal protection” clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (siriuscoffee.com)
- The Mero Moment: Kim Davis – September 17, 2015 (utahpoliticohub.com)
- Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes (boingboing.net)
- What Ben Carson gets right about a religious test for office (theweek.com)
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150 Years after the 13th Amendment
After the United States civil war, in 1865 the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were approved by Congress and ratified.
What seems so natural, so obvious and simple was not so simple in the New World. it took a long time before the majority was willing to accept it was wrong in every sense.
13th Amendment of the nited States Constitution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
But lots of pioneers who came from Europe and liked those cheap labour-forces did not want to have those “monkies” like they were often called, being part of their normal co-habitats.
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad looking at an album of photographs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, based on congressional acts, which gave the president authority to confiscate rebel property and forbid the military from returning slaves of rebels to their owners. Being liberated from their masters those Negroes started to create their own free businesses. Only addressing the rebelling southern states the proclamation did not resolve the issue of slavery for the nation as a whole. It was thought the Thirteenth Amendment (the first of the three so-called “Civil War Amendments“) would bring a solution for all coloured people, prohibiting slavery throughout the country. To extend the rights of citizenship to all people regardless of race or colour the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added.
Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the Civil War Amendments, but by the end of the nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts, repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation.
Segregation of the races in schools, public accommodations, public transportation, and various other aspects of public life, was honoured for a long time after the amendment was written.
It has taken many man years before that all persons could have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theatres, and other places of amusement, regardless of race or colour. Even today, anno 2015, we see that in the United states there are still many states or regions where the white people are not so happy with those with a darker skin. In several regions it is still more difficult for a coloured man to find work than for a white man.
1904 caricature of “White” and “Jim Crow” rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow’s legal pretense that the races be “separate but equal” under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment {John McCutheon. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905.}
The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by an 8–1 vote, holding that Congress had exceeded its authority to enforce the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that private discrimination against African Americans did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on slavery. Following this decision, several northern and western states began enacting their own bans on discrimination in public places. But many other states did the opposite: they began codifying racial segregation and discrimination in laws that became known as the Jim Crow laws. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart (1915–1985)
Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the majority, turned to the Thirteenth Amendment and observed that it was adopted to remove the “badges of slavery” and that it gave Congress power to effect that removal. Stewart wrote:
Congress has the power under the Thirteenth Amendment rationally to determine what are the badges and the incidents of slavery, and the authority to translate that determination into effective legislation…. [W]hen racial discrimination herds men into ghettos and makes their ability to buy property turn on the color of their skin, then it too is a relic of slavery.
Normally this 13° amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery, but the sex trafficking is still a very flourishing business, though some part may come under threat when Donald Trump shall be able to get a firm wall between the Mexican border with increased controls.
“At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina.” May 1940, Jack Delano. Deutsch: “An der Bushaltestelle, Durham, North Carolina.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Français : “A la gare routière, Durham, Caroline du Nord.”, Mai 1940, Jack Delano. Español: “En la estación de autobuses, Durham, Carolina del Norte.”, Mayo de 1940, Jack Delano. Italiano: “Alla fermata dell’autobus, Durham, Carolina del Nord.” Maggio del 1940, Jack Delano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was a long overdue step in the long road the Americans continue to walk in their efforts to address and uproot the systemic injustices embedded into their society. Still today we can see there too many people being forced to terrible inhuman conditions.
Having politicians speaking arrogantly about other coloured and other cultured people makes it that other Americans do not see any harm in using those people as cheap labour and treating them as scum. This week in Europe we once more got to see and hear how a man with lots of money could point his finger to those whom he considered to be cullings and scourings which were just there to be used outside the United states of America to produce cheap products for the American White supremacy.
In the Republican primary the material or essence of those amendments from 150 years ago are at large.
In Europe many people, like me, were afraid the first black president of America would have been put in the grave soon. It worked out differently, for the good. Though lots of good ideas were retained by the republicans, America may be proud of the work Barack Obama still could establish with all that counteraction.
Standing in the United States Capitol today, President Obama reflected on the history of the progress which was made in the United States of America — hard-fought, hard-won, incomplete, but always possible.
Watch his remarks here about the century and a half of freedom and about the stealing of men, women and children from their homelands, separating husbands from wives and parents from children:
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As many made clear at the time of its ratification, the 13th Amendment was not a final step, but rather the first step in making real the promise that all men are created equal. Read the letter that Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was free after he had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He never replied, but the answer was no. It would take an amendment to Maryland’s constitution — and the 13th Amendment — to ensure that she and all enslaved people in the U.S. were free in the eyes of the law.
“President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy — etching our values into our Constitution.”
The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery 9 December 2015
“We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman and Douglass, and Lincoln and King — were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.”
“For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek.
“All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: to rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others — regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice…
“That is our choice. Today we affirm hope.”
+
Preceding
Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
Vatican against Opponents of immigration
++
Additional reading
- Stand Up
- Consequences of Breivik’s mass murder
- Religion, fundamentalism and murder
- Believing in God part of being American for Discriminating Americans who feel discrimiated
- Why I’m Angry
- A last note concerning civil rights
+++
Further related articles
- Obama-McCain-latina. June 15, 2008
- White Australian Panel Fails To Grasp The Concept Of Racism In Discussion About The Word “Negro”
- “Adding Insult With Significant Physical Injury”: The 2016 Campaign Joke That’s No Longer Funny — Just Violent
- Donald Trump, the Great Wall of China … and a little history
- Trouble on the border?
- America’s Berlin Wall
- Think it’s time to admit Donald Trump is right about Mexico but of course you won’t…
- Trump proposes increase of fees on Mexican visas to build Mexico border wall
- We Already Have a Wall, Mr. Trump
- “Donald Trump’s hot minute at the US-Mexico border”
- Trump: Border Patrol Union Backed Out Because They Were ‘Petrified’ To Say What’s Happening At Border
- Border Patrol Union In Texas Backs Out Of Meeting With Donald Trump
- Donald Trump fights back
- Why the Donald is dangerous
- “Sinvergüenza”: Trump, Bush Don’t Care That ‘Anchor Baby’ Isn’t ‘Politically Correct’
- Democrates Hope Race Across US-Mexico Border Will Ease Building Tension Over Trade
- Refugees on Our Doorstep
- The Draft Riots of 1863
- How well do you know your American history?
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
- More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast
- 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation : Sarah Pruitt
- If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
- Hallowed Ground Retained
- Ben Carson Uses Empowerment Message in Bid to Sway Black Voters
- The New Slavery
+++
Related articles
- San Marino 2015 Abraham Lincoln 10 Euro Silver Coin (coinweek.com)
- Pope Francis Inspires Black Catholics, Despite Complicated Church History On Race (wnyc.org)
- Pope praises activists Day, Merton for shaping US values (chippewa.com)
- New Agreement Keeps Civil-War-era House Open To The Public (baltimore.cbslocal.com)
- How SCOTUS perverted the “equal protection” clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (siriuscoffee.com)
- The Mero Moment: Kim Davis – September 17, 2015 (utahpoliticohub.com)
- Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes (boingboing.net)
- What Ben Carson gets right about a religious test for office (theweek.com)
- How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment (theatlantic.com)
- Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Responds to Carson (truthandaction.org)
Rate this:
#13AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #14AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #15AmendmentToTheUSConstitution #1865 #2015 #AbrahamLincoln #AfricanAmericans #AmericanSettlers #AnnieDavis #CheapLabour #CivilWarAmendments #ColouredPeople #DonaldTrump #EmancipationProclamation1863_ #JimCrowLaws #Maryland #MexicanBorder #Negro #NewWorld #PioneersOfNorthAmerica #PotterStewart #RacialDiscrimination #RacialSegregation #ReconstructionPeriod #Segregation #SexTrafficking #Slavery #USCivilRightsActOf1875 #UnitedStatesConstitution #WhitePeople #WhiteRace