Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books

[Buddy]

Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books | CNN Politics

When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.

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Washington(CNN)When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.

"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," the amendment reads.

The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasn't been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee will be given the opportunity to exorcise the punishment from their states' constitutions once and for all, according to a CNN review of pending ballot initiatives.

The proposed amendments would either explicitly rule out slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments or remove the terms from state law altogether.

Advocates are hailing the initiatives as long overdue and hope that state-level movements will one day lead to the removal of such language from the 13th Amendment altogether, though some argue that the movement underscores a larger need to lift rules permitting forced labor from inmates for little to no pay, a practice that has been likened to indentured servitude. None of the five changes being considered next month would eliminate prison work.

"If their populaces vote for this at the state level, then we have to believe that their congressional representatives will also have to support it as a federal measure," said Bianca Tylek, the executive director of Worth Rises, a non-profit that is campaigning to remove the clause from the 13th Amendment. "The more states that do this, the more federal support we can garner."

 

[Secure Da Bag]

The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasn't been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee will be given the opportunity to exorcise the punishment from their states' constitutions once and for all, according to a CNN review of pending ballot initiatives.

The proposed amendments would either explicitly rule out slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments or remove the terms from state law altogether.

Advocates are hailing the initiatives as long overdue and hope that state-level movements will one day lead to the removal of such language from the 13th Amendment altogether,

i'm all for it. but wouldn't this be struck down because it's unconstitutional?

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

i'm all for it. but wouldn't this be struck down because it's unconstitutional?

Fam… within the last, I’ll say, 4-5 years, how many blatantly unconstitutional rulings have happened that have gone unchecked by the federal government?

That shyt is NOT the final law of the land anymore.

 

[Fiji Water]

i'm all for it. but wouldn't this be struck down because it's unconstitutional?

Fam… within the last, I’ll say, 4-5 years, how many blatantly unconstitutional rulings have happened that have gone unchecked by the federal government?

That shyt is NOT the final law of the land anymore.

I'm not sure of the specifics in this process but constitutional can be circumvented by "codifying".

And it's good if something like this doesn't make it to a SCOTUS level because that means the highest court in the land would have to blatantly say that any form of slavery is or isn't acceptable in the United States of America.

 

[Paper Boi]

I was reading a bill last year that was finally removing the words Master and Slave from old employment laws and replaced with updated terminology… I think it was from Florida. it’s wild shyt like this is still around, but then when you think about it not really.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I was reading a bill last year that was finally removing the words Master and Slave from old employment laws and replaced with updated terminology… I think it was from Florida. it’s wild shyt like this is still around, but then when you think about it not really.

Mickey Mouse is patterned after the old sambo figures.

Clowns are racist imagery. They just swapped the black face paint for white and use a rainbow colored afro instead. They draw on big lips and add a big ass nose still.

Once I learned that kinda shyt I just decided that racism is baked into the American pie.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

This is the end result of these c00ns and Tariq and Yvette followers who were saying we "need our racism out in the open".

Y'all are some dumbasses. We tried to tell yall over and over and you wouldn't listen.

Yall talking about you wanted racism in the open for "reparations". How are you gonna get reparations for something that these devils are about to start teaching didn't happen?

Y'all dummies got played.