Existing comment:
Amend the 13th Amendment
[From https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/510016-one-way-we-can-honor-john-lewis-legacy-amend-the-13th-amendment
There is more racism still embedded in our laws and history than many imagine. The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery reads, "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." Even our attempt to fix the glaring contradiction at the heart of our Constitution contains a contradiction in itself. Even in trying to abolish slavery once and for all, we left a loophole that has been used as a justification for many of the absolute worst abuses in our prison system.
Slavery should have no exceptions.] |