#13thAmendment

[cookhomebuyers]

Today is National Freedom Day! Not to mistake the 4th of July for Independence Day. Today commemorates the day in 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln signed what later became the 13th Amendment, which was the ending of slavery in the United States.   

[radicalurbanista]

If you support any form of police/military, you are supporting racism.

If you support any form of capitalism, you are supporting racism.

If you support any form of borders, you are supporting racism.

The US nation-state exists to protect and grow racial capitalism. Racial hierarchy--racism--develops as a justification for capitalism because capitalism’s exploitation is inhumane and thus requires an ideology to justify its dehumanization of people. Impoverishment and subjugation require human intent to maintain because they are unnatural forces. Part of this action is racist ideology enforced through laws and police/military on groups most distant from the ruling class. 

When the US was still an English colony, English nobles suppressed labor disputes in the colonies by creating racial hierarchy in order to divide their working populations of enslaved Africans and poor English colonists. For any law or program that would hurt white people, it always comes down harsher on impoverished Black communities and individuals. The American racial binary developed to mean that Black people are the most targeted and subjected, Indigenous people are excluded, and white people are allowed agency. White privilege isn’t giving white people total freedom so much as it is never being as aggressive with whites and not denying them access to some thing to the same extent as it’s denied to Black/brown/immigrant communities, as well as lying to them that the ruling class is their allies because of shared race. 

Police and the military are the acting arm of the state and of capitalism--the invisible fist to the invisible hand. Capitalism is never enacted and cannot be maintained without this violent force. Police systems grew out of local slave catching cults, their violence was in reaction to Africans escaping enslavement. The only way to maintain enslavement is with violence. The 13th Amendment shifted this violence to prisons, where capitalism could operate more effectively and without the public eye. Now instead of only reinstituting enslavement on people, they have full legal right to enforce a life of enslavement.

Capitalism is a violent system, it commodifies free and natural resources into private property to impose artificial scarcity. The free market denies people’s needs and blames it on the laws of the market (or just the whims of the ruling class), but because the market isn’t real, it requires real force to enact its imaginary boundaries of ownership. Capitalism requires armed forces to protect the illusion of private property. This keeps free and natural resources away from the people who need it, and it requires that everyone subject themselves to capitalism in order to receive the currency necessary to purchase what was once free. 

Nation-state borders aren’t real and also require violence to maintain its illusion (fences, walls, CBP/ICE, passports, IDs). These violent forces stop free and natural movement. The documentation required to move across these filters requires that people subject themselves to the nation-state, the organizer of these violent institutions.

American liberals and conservatives both believe in ideologies that are inherently racist because both believe in the continuation and/or expansion of capitalism. The logics of conservatives/Republicans (classical liberals) and liberals/Democrats (neo-liberals) are inherently evil because that’s what it takes to justify capitalism. Every authoritarian action by the US on its people is framed as isolated incidents of necessary control, justified through logics of racism and capitalism, for the sake of compliance. The US is a 1 party system, the party of racial-capitalism.

Capitalism is a growth economy. It’s never satisfied with its empire and furthers theft of land, labor, people, and power; it will never passively allow itself to shrink or be made smaller. These uprisings are counter-action to the violences of police, capitalism, racism, and the state. 

Rebuilding requires destruction first.

[therealafrikantruth]

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[spanky606]

Reposted from @powerfuljoerogan - Why does the 13th amendment have a loophole to still allow slavery? 🤔 - Prisoners were paid $1 an hour to help fight wildfires in California, yet they will likely never be able to become firefighters on release because they are felons., 🔴EDIT: This is just 1 example. Prisoners are exploited for profit doing many other "jobs". Blacks/whites, we all got the same masters. What do you think? 👇 _______________________________________ Edited clip from #JRE podcast episode 1230 with @joerogan @killermike @jamievernon on 01-23-2019 _______________________________________ #joerogan #joeroganexperience #killermike #runthejewels #prisonreform #firefighters #firefighter #13thamendment #slavery - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BtXjVL5npj-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t0807wm5aq49

[southsideunicorn]

#13thamendment #14thamendment #15thamendment #civilrightactof1964 #trump2024 #trumpjr #America #loveyourself https://www.instagram.com/p/CgWuBcirdPS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jamesreiningerphotography]

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[227200]

Help us end the 13th Amendment. #savelife #life #13thamendment #advocacy at #leadership https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccq11tFv_-T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[merdeslawoffice]

National Freedom Day

Happy National Freedom Day! February 1st was chosen by President Harry Truman as a day to celebrate our nation’s freedom. On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the resolution to outlaw slavery, giving freedom to all. This resolution later became the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution. READ MORE...

[thecomedybureau]

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[librarycompany]

On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States. However, the amendment made an exception for forced labor “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Appalled by the widespread abuse and exploitation of prisoners, the National Association of Colored Women passed a resolution condemning the practice of the convict leasing system at their 1896 convention.

Learn about fellowship opportunities in the Library Company’s Program in African American History – Applications due March 1, 2018! 

National Association of Colored Women (U.S.). A history of the club movement among the colored women of the United States of America.  [United States : s.n.], 1902.

[djmophatt]

Please tag a #lawmaker, #judge, #policeofficer, #prosecuter, or other #politician in #America so we can have a better understanding on how bystanders can help to save lives, prevent trauma and possibly save the #citizens money from having to pay for the inappropriate actions of those put in place to “enforce” laws. • #injustice #skinimin #equality #civilrights #inequality #liberty #justice #vote #lawenforcement #court #verdict #arrest #rights #laws #amendment #13th #13thamendment #jail

[cinefast]

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[stormyfayethechristianrunaway]

Reposted from @repjahanahayes Happy #NationalFreedomDay! We’ve come a long way, but we still have work to do. #FreedomDay #13thAmendment https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxx4Zip1fP/?igshid=f4gw0b4aoopv

[drraptjr]

What a great way to end - Listen. Think. Live! - with the homies talking about their incredible work with Hawaiian youth and families. Oh yeah, they’ve got them bars too. Shoutout to @illnomadic and @fyahempressstone on their instant classic #13thamendment https://www.instagram.com/p/CGRnsHKg2ev/?igshid=21onibax43lg

[equalityforafricanamericans]

On January 31, 1865 Congress passed the 13th amendment and ratified on December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment would abolish slavery in the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln made efforts to ensure that the 13th amendment through congress. The Confederate states were not happy to hear of this since their way of life was owning slaves.

Slaves would later gain their freedom all over the U.S. which was one step closer to finally be seen as an equal. They have been oppressed for more than 250 years and the 13th amendment was the victory they needed.

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