#racialdiscrimination — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #racialdiscrimination, aggregated by home.social.
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Associated Press: Google settles racial discrimination lawsuit for $50 million . “Google has settled with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a ‘pattern and practice’ of unfair treatment for its Black […]
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France must fully include Kanaks in New Caledonia reforms: UN watchdog
France’s reforms in New Caledonia must only go ahead with the effective participation of the Pacific territory’s indigenous…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #CERD #IndigenousMelanesians #Kanaks #newcaledonia #politicalreforms #RacialDiscrimination
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BANKING GIANT FACES FIRESTORM AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIMS
JPMorgan Chase is sued over claims of sexual assault and racial slurs by executive Lorna Hajdini. The bank denies the allegations.
#JPMorganChase, #SexualAssault, #WorkplaceHarassment, #RacialDiscrimination, #LegalNews
https://newsletter.tf/jpmorgan-chase-lawsuit-sexual-assault-claims/
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A former employee is suing JPMorgan Chase executive Lorna Hajdini, claiming sexual assault and racial slurs. The bank says its investigation found no merit to the claims.
#JPMorganChase, #SexualAssault, #WorkplaceHarassment, #RacialDiscrimination, #LegalNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/55531/ US Supreme Court under Roberts takes ‘wrecking ball’ to Voting Rights Act #Alabama #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #ConservativeJustices #ElectoralMaps #ElenaKagan #JohnRoberts #JusticeSamuelAlito #PresidentDonaldTrump #RacialDiscrimination #selma #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct
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https://www.europesays.com/people/50613/ US Supreme Court under Roberts takes ‘wrecking ball’ to Voting Rights Act #Alabama #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #ConservativeJustices #ElectoralMaps #ElenaKagan #JohnRoberts #JusticeSamuelAlito #PresidentDonaldTrump #RacialDiscrimination #selma #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct
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A Delhi couple has been taken into custody after allegedly targeting Northeast women with racial slurs in Malviya Nagar. Police have invoked the SC/ST Act, and the probe is now being supervised by senior officials. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/racial-slurs-against-northeast-women-delhi-couple-arrested-in-malviya-nagar-sc-st-act-invoked-wwreyrs8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DelhiNews #RacialDiscrimination #NortheastIndia #SCSTAct
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Judge rules Brian Flores’ NFL discrimination case can head to open court, not arbitration
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the court ruling that Minnesota Vikings defensive…
#NewsBeep #News #NFL #AU #Australia #BrianFlores #dirtylaundry #racialdiscrimination #RayHorton #RogerGoodell #sports
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Judge rules Brian Flores’ NFL discrimination case can head to open court, not arbitration https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/756950/ #BrianFlores #DirtyLaundry #Football #NFL #RacialDiscrimination #RayHorton #RogerGoodell
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Black Americans are disproportionately criminalized for living with HIV. Here's how
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/health/black-american-hiv-rates-criminalization
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Why my doctor gave a shot of socialism with my annual exam
Why is my doctor worried about my mortgage payments? So I found myself wondering as I filled out…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Activism #doctors #federalregulation #Health #medicalcare #opinion #racialdiscrimination #socialism #theleft
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Why my doctor gave a shot of socialism with my annual exam
Why is my doctor worried about my mortgage payments? So I found myself wondering as I filled out…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Activism #doctors #federalregulation #Health #medicalcare #opinion #racialdiscrimination #socialism #theleft
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“I always received strong support from the team and the board,” said the former England cricketer. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/never-faced-any-racial-discrimination-while-playing-says-panesar-post-khawajas-reveal-uh3py2rz?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MontyPanesar #RacialDiscrimination #UsmanKhawaja
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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hidden-patterns-isolation-segregation-american.html
most U.S. cities have "isolated" wealthier suburban neighborhoods on the cities' periphery, which are often majority white, and have few visitors from different socio-economic backgrounds. There are also other "segregated" poorer downtown areas, often majority non-white, where residents have few interactions with people of different backgrounds than them.
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A California judge removed class-action status from a major racial discrimination case against Tesla, forcing 6,000+ Black employees to file individual claims instead. The ruling weakens collective power but the workers still plan to pursue justice.
#Tesla #RacialDiscrimination #Lawsuit #LegalUpdate #WorkplaceJustice #ElonMusk #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/tesla-wins-bid-racial-bias-case-class-action-overturned/
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… a group of 11 complainants – including University of NSW Associate Professor Peter Slezak, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network President Nasser Mashni and Actor/Producer Claudia Karvan OAM – made four complaints to the AHRC alleging discrimination on the grounds of race, descent, national and ethnic origin, and racial hatred under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (RDA). These accepted complaints included a total of 81 impugned publications or broadcasts.
https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/australian-human-rights-commission-accepts-complaints-against-news-corp/
#AusPol
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University of Washington: People mirror AI systems’ hiring biases, study finds. “When picking candidates without AI or with neutral AI, participants picked white and non-white applicants at equal rates. But when they worked with a moderately biased AI, if the AI preferred non-white candidates, participants did too. If it preferred white candidates, participants did too. In cases of severe […]
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SC voices strong concern over Kerala students assaulted in Delhi; stresses, “We are one country” amid rising racial discrimination cases. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/we-are-one-country-sc-voices-concern-over-assault-on-kerala-students-in-delhi-nc20r5ro?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SupremeCourt #KeralaStudents #DelhiIncident #RacialDiscrimination
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"The story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. Although this is not a story about a moment of victory, it is a story of being reminded of our power."
#RacialProfiling #TwoTierJusticeSystem #RacialDiscrimination #ICEstatesponsoredterror
https://organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-for-our-neighbors-we-showed-up/
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A federal court in El Paso will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Texas’ mid-decade round of congressional redistricting. Civil rights groups are seeking to block the new map from taking effect before candidates file for the midterm elections.
#CivilRights #Court #Elections #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2026Elections #CongressionalRedistricting #Gerrymandering #PresidentDonaldTrump #RacialDiscrimination #TexasGovernorGregAbbott
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“I wish I owned an NFL team…I’d sign him today” – LeBron James loved Colin Kaepernick’s stance against racial inequality https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/384597/ #ColinKaepernick #Football #LebronJames #LosAngeles #NFL #RacialDiscrimination #SanFrancisco49ers #SilentProtests
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“I wish I owned an NFL team…I’d sign him today” – LeBron James loved Colin Kaepernick’s stance against racial inequality https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/384597/ #ColinKaepernick #Football #LebronJames #LosAngeles #NFL #RacialDiscrimination #SanFrancisco49ers #SilentProtests
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#Conservatives have for generations used denigrating #language to describe the *conditions* of major #cities & called for greater law enforcement, often in response to changing #demographics in those cities driven by #nonwhite populations relocating in search of #work or #safety from #RacialDiscrimination & #StateViolence.
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
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Republican state lawmakers argue their proposed redistricting map would create Latino opportunity districts. But a Democratic state rep says the map is drawn to leave Black and Latino residents with a fraction of the voting power of whites.
#CivilRights #Elections #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #BlackVoters #CongressionalRedistricting #LatinoVoters #RacialDiscrimination #StateRepresentativeVincePerez #TexasRedistricting
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#CivilRights lawyers who have monitored the cases said the move is another sign of the #Trump administration’s retreat from the department’s mission of protecting the rights of vulnerable groups. Since January, Trump’s #DOJ has dropped #RacialDiscrimination lawsuits, abandoned investigations of #PoliceMisconduct & canceled #oversight of troubled #LawEnforcement agencies.
#law #HumanRights #Prisoners #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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The proposed map targets districts dominated by coalitions of Latino and Black voters, with a focus on districts in the Rio Grande Valley, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Central Texas. Houston Democrats would also see their districts shuffled.
#Elections #International #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #RacialDiscrimination #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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The University of Houston hosted a hearing of the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Saturday. Almost all of the candidates running for TX-18, vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner's death in March, urged the committee not to redraw the boundaries.
#CivilRights #Elections #InDepth #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #18thCongressionalDistrict #2025TexasLegislature #GovernorGregAbbott #RacialDiscrimination #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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“I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents #RacialDiscrimination and #discrimination against America’s LGBTQ #community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.“ —Judge William Young, on the #lawsuit brought against the #trump administration for its decree to blacklist all #DEI and #LGBTQ research
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq
Judge rules that anti #woke is just #racism -
#politics #trump #ruleoflaw #corruption #alt #courts #nokings #aba #lawsuits #racial #racialdiscrimination #HHS
Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025
Push Back No Shame Discrimination -
A #Black #ChickfilA #Employee Sues After Shock Claims About '#Slave Whippings' at #Work
The former #worker alleges his #coworkers called him an "ape" and threatened to put him in a cage.
https://www.theroot.com/a-black-chick-fil-a-employee-sues-after-shock-claims-ab-1851782758
Thomas Wade started working as a #cook at a @ChickfilA in #IdahoFalls. Wade alleges that he faced repeated #racialdiscrimination despite notifying his #managers of the alleged abuse in roughly 25 to 30 reports.
https://www.theroot.com/a-black-chick-fil-a-employee-sues-after-shock-claims-ab-1851782758
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chick-fil-a-racism-slavery-harassment-idaho-lawsuit-b2754920.html -
Hyundai Motor partially wins racial discrimination lawsuit in Alabama, with ongoing disputes over retaliatory promotion practices and inconsistent company explanations in remaining cases.
#YonhapInfomax #HyundaiMotor #RacialDiscrimination #AlabamaPlant #LawsuitRuling #EmploymentPractices #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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#UN #AntonioGuterres #message #InternationalDay #RacialDiscrimination #news
"Secretary-General's message on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [scroll down for French version]"
"The poison of #racism continues to infect our #world – a toxic legacy of historic #enslavement, #colonialism and #discrimination. It corrupts communities, blocks opportunities, and ruins lives, eroding the very foundations of #dignity, #equality and #justice..."
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On #InternationalDay for the Elimination of #RacialDiscrimination its more than appropriate that #TheDisciplesWay is reflecting on Mark 3:31-34 This is the story of where Jesus declares “For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, & my sister, & mother.” This verse rings a bit different for adopted people like me. The parents who raised me, my siblings & other relatives are my family [hard stop] I have no desire to know whether or not we are blood relatives or if I have unknown blood relatives out there somewhere. It doesn’t really matter to me. That is both liberating & a burden because while I can choose what aspects of family I wish carry forward, I am also aware that everyone I encounter is a potential relative which colors (or should) how I treat & interact with them. I strive to be authentic (although I am a private person) & meet people where they are, without expectations, because that’s what family does/is. I’m not always kind but I don’t wish anyone ill.
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The hotel hasn't been covered consistently for over a month. The hotel must take priority above all, or else they'd be in danger. #Homelessness is illegal.
Lack of valid identification, registration & active phone service make it all the more important the hotel be covered. Though they're citizens, this #disabled #BIPOC #immigrant family doesn't have valid identification to establish citizenship & that's assuming #racialdiscrimination wouldn't put them in danger.
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#SCOTUS decided it's #Constitutional for those without shelter to face arrest. #Disability & #racialdiscrimination add to this significantly. We should be rallying to help those in need. We need a sense of consistency in #communitysupport.
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A case which sets a precedent?
"As Justice Angus Stewart of the Federal Court read out his judgment summary — which determined conclusively that One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson had racially vilified my client, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, and contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act when she told her to “piss off back to Pakistan” — his evident humanity and compassion helped bring home that this case was both the engine of future consequence and the product of past hurt."
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"Recently, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, for the fifth straight year, shunned the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars, a team that overcame segregation, discrimination, violence, and blatantly biased officiating to become the first all-Black team in Canadian history to win a provincial title. The team was on the verge of a second championship in 1939 when the playoffs were canceled due to war."
#KKKanada #SystematicRacism #RacismInCanada #BlackAthletes #BlackCanadians #RacialDiscrimination
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#HealthMinister Shane Reti leads a review of a 1980s #affirmativeaction program for #Māori and #Pasifika medical students, he personally benefitted from.
#ACTParty #leader #DavidSeymour calls it "#racialdiscrimination," while #supporters defend its #effectiveness, deeming the #review as pointless.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewZealand #HigherEducation #IndigenousPeople #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
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Outrage over white-only job ad drives tech firm to delete website - Enlarge (credit: VIDOK | iStock / Getty Images Plus)
After Red... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1929436 #racialdiscrimination #hiringpractices #discrimination #techhiring #policy
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Enlightening/sobering article by the Innocence Project about the racist U.S. legal system:
#innocenceproject #racialbias #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustice #jimcrow #deathrow #wrongfulconvictions #policemisconduct
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The roots of the next potential #SCOTUS showdown that could further weaken the #VotingRightsAct #protections against #racialdiscrimination can be traced to a handful of sentences by Justice #NeilGorsuch. In the summer of 2021, Gorsuch — the first Supreme Court appointee by former President #Trump — tacked a single-paragraph concurring opinion onto a major court ruling to "flag one thing." The ruling was for a lawsuit about #Section2 of the #VotingRightsAct. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1157248572/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-private-right-of-action-arkansas
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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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- “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”
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- 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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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