Trump Doubles Down 14th Amendment Made For Descendants of Slaves in America (FBAs/Freedman), Not For Immigrants

[Bunchy Carter]

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[Samori Toure]

White people are so hateful that they don't even see the contradictions in their stupidity. He and his children wouldn't be citizens except for that amendment, because his mother was an immigrant. His children mother's were immigrants, except for the child that he hates. Most White people in the USA would not be citizens.

 

[ba'al]

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

If you're going to talk about the 14th Amendment, you need to be honest about what it actually says and how it's been used. Yes, it was passed during Reconstruction to protect formerly enslaved Black Americans. But it's not just about citizenship. You can't ignore that the Equal Protection Clause, which is part of the exact same section, is what gave us the legal foundation to fight segregation, win civil rights, and challenge discrimination in courts.

Some of you are defending Trump for saying birthright citizenship shouldn't apply to the children of immigrants because the 14th Amendment was originally meant for us. But that same Trump administration has repeatedly used the Equal Protection Clause to attack programs that directly benefit Black Americans. His legal teams (led by Stephen Miller's America first legal and Edward Blum) have sued to block policies aimed at helping Black farmers, Black-owned businesses, Black-focused education initiatives, the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, and so on, by claiming they discriminate against white people.

How do you reconcile the contradiction? If someone is using one part of the 14th Amendment to exclude others, while using another part of it to dismantle resources and support systems created to help Black Americans, is that someone who truly respects the amendment's original purpose? Or are they using it to push an agenda that harms the very people it was designed to protect?

You can't say you're defending the legacy of the 14th Amendment for descendants of slavery while cheering on a politician who is actively undermining that same amendment when it's used to advance our rights and opportunities.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I just want off this timeline Doc

 

[WTFisWallace?]

If you're going to talk about the 14th Amendment, you need to be honest about what it actually says and how it's been used. Yes, it was passed during Reconstruction to protect formerly enslaved Black Americans. But it's not just about citizenship. You can't ignore that the Equal Protection Clause, which is part of the exact same section, is what gave us the legal foundation to fight segregation, win civil rights, and challenge discrimination in courts.

Some of you are defending Trump for saying birthright citizenship shouldn't apply to the children of immigrants because the 14th Amendment was originally meant for us. But that same Trump administration has repeatedly used the Equal Protection Clause to attack programs that directly benefit Black Americans. His legal teams (led by Stephen Miller's America first legal and Edward Blum) have sued to block policies aimed at helping Black farmers, Black-owned businesses, Black-focused education initiatives, the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, and so on, by claiming they discriminate against white people.

How do you reconcile the contradiction? If someone is using one part of the 14th Amendment to exclude others, while using another part of it to dismantle resources and support systems created to help Black Americans, is that someone who truly respects the amendment's original purpose? Or are they using it to push an agenda that harms the very people it was designed to protect?

You can't say you're defending the legacy of the 14th Amendment for descendants of slavery while cheering on a politician who is actively undermining that same amendment when it's used to advance our rights and opportunities.

I did not even catch the duplicity of Trump’s admin here. I would rep you, but says I gotta wait.

 

[Buddy]

You mean to tell me this whole time the "tangibles" yall were looking for was birthright citizenship? I heard the word "slavery" plenty but not a damn thing about reparations.





And did yall forget this man is tryna SELL citizenship with the gold card?!

fukk a "birthright", is your WORTH right?

 

[Peter Popoff]

Hitler believed that the Jews stole our culture and Putin believes that black people are being mistreated....

Both are/were evil dictators as well. Fear Hate is jealous and misguided but confused admiration.

 

[DonB90]

 

[Tair]

 

[Cobalt Sire]

I saw this on a left leaning news channel, and they didn't mention where he said it's only for FBA. They just said he's getting rid of it. I've noticed that news channels on both sides often leave out important details.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Hitler believed that the Jews stole our culture and Putin believes that black people are being mistreated....

Both are/were evil dictators as well. Fear Hate is jealous and misguided but confused admiration.

Putin is an evil dictator?
Like I’m trying to understand what that even means in the grand scheme of the real world

 

[Peter Popoff]

Putin is an evil dictator?
Like I’m trying to understand what that even means in the grand scheme of the real world

President of Russia but everyone that goes up against him mysteriously dies of "illness" so he's really a dictator.

I strongly believe the maga party will follow his playbook with plane crashes, voter manipulation, etc.

 

[Plankton]

OP has zero original thought. Every one of his threads is related to some sort of Tariq Nasheed agenda, every time. If Tariq Nasheed was never born OP would have nothing to talk about.

 

[Cobalt Sire]

I support getting rid of birthright citizenship. It should have only been for Black people. No scratch that, it's only for FBA. Get these illegal immigrants the fukk out of here. They have been causing me nothing but problems.