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It is amazing how slow Black people are.
Democrats Push 'Abolition Amendment' To Fully Erase Slavery From U.S. Constitution
Congressional Democrats seek to remove the "punishment" clause from the 13th Amendment which allows members of prison populations to be used as cheap and free labor.
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I've been in jail a few dozen times for beating-up Black people, and the trustee work programs are voluntary, and I would imagine that the prison work programs are voluntary, and I heard that they pay the prison workers - it is not involuntary servitude. Take away the work programs and how are they going to buy candy bars and ramen noodles from the commissary?Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., who is leading the amendment effort in the House, seeks to "finish the job that President (Abraham) Lincoln started." "No American should ever be subject to involuntary servitude, even if they are incarcerated," he said.
It would be much more effective to Black people's plight to realize that the solution is to have a constitutional convention that gathers the diversity of people to guard against "systemic biases" in the reordering process.Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, one of the Democrats leading the effort to amend the Constitution, put the change in the context of the overall campaign for justice. "As we take on the long and difficult challenge of rooting out systemic racism in our nation, ending the slavery loophole in the 13th Amendment is [a] critical step in that challenge," Merkley said in a statement.
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