July 2, 2023
During the 1600’s, white slave traders from Europe affirmatively went to Africa, affirmatively captured natives, and affirmatively sold them into slavery in the new world. Plantation owners and others affirmatively bought these slaves at auction and affirmatively put them to work at the business end of a whip.
Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States affirmatively declared that any person who was not free would be considered three fifths of a person for the purposes of determining Congressional representation.
In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson affirmatively ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal”.
The Jim Crow Laws affirmatively introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries enforced racial segregation. Such laws remained in force until the 1960s.
After the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, many states affirmatively passed laws that discriminated against African Americans and limited their ability to vote. Similar affirmative practices persist to this day.
Today, we have a group of young people whose only crime is that they want to affirmatively get a decent education despite an affirmative history of discrimination and disenfranchisement, and a present that affirmatively involves poor schools, housing, healthcare, and nutrition.
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