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Land of the free (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Daily reminder slavery is still legal in the U.S.

[–] _____@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

land of the double speak

this is a reminder that slavery is literally legal as punishment for crimes and thus they have not abolished slavery

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Imagine how the indigenous people felt and still do

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"all other persons" are counted as "three-fifths" of a person

Also "all other persons" could not vote. Wonder what "all other persons" could possibly mean. A Dwarf?

oh, wait doesn't that mean... oh...

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(it means enslaved people btw)

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like how arbitrary the fraction "three fifths" to a person is.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Specifically calculated to limit the exploit of population cramming the American South could do with slaves. The South wanted them to be counted as full people (only for the purposes of determining representatives).

[–] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

a person enough to not be exempt from work