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   Scott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 (genxjamerican@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 02:49:34 JST Scott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸

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   Subjecting black citizenship to the popular will is how Reconstruction was killed after the Civil War. If this country makes the same mistake in 2024, it won’t only be black folks who suffer the consequences.

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     Scott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 (genxjamerican@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 02:49:36 JST Scott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸

     Gavin Newsom adds his name to the list of those for whom the plain text of the 14th Amendment is merely a suggestion. Which is to say that the full citizenship of black folks in this country should be subject to whims of whoever is in power. And given how we’ve seen gerrymandering work, whoever is in power is not even necessarily a majority.

     https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111635977367094642

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.