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

[tuckgod]

 

[23Barrettcity]

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.

They keeping you from all those lucrative jobs in the field picking fruit ?

 

[Mordith]

So they can acknowledge Slavery when it's advantageous to do so......

 

[Gloxina]

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.

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?

 

[Gloxina]

So they can acknowledge Slavery when it's advantageous to do so......

 

[Black Panther]

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 agree with everything you said, but you should have just called OP a c00n and kept it pushing. Pearls before swine and all that.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

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.

Cry more fakkit

 

[acri1]

I agree with everything you said, but you should have just called OP a c00n and kept it pushing. Pearls before swine and all that.

Pretty much. These dudes are just looking for any excuse to glaze Trump.

 

[OaklandCertified]

 

[The_Sheff]

The US has to get over keeping shyt because it's old. Other countries are much more competent when it comes to changing outdated laws.

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Cry more fakkit

Get deported, p*ssy.

 

[Yaboysix]

Alright... How does this affect black folks?

 

[Cobalt Sire]

They keeping you from all those lucrative jobs in the field picking fruit ?

No, but they try to politically undermine us, and use their gangs to go after innocent Black people. By the way, they don't just pick fruit. Life isn't a South Park episode. Come up with a better response.

 

[Fillerguy]

The 14th amendment was able slavery but them cacs never used the word "slavery" in the Constitution. That document doesn't even use the word "slave" when addressing us. The closest we got is "such persons", which is ambiguous reference to enslaved ppl, at best. If they really wanted to kill birth right citizenship, all they have to do address us in the constitution.



The 13th amendment doesn't mention us for a reason. Watch the strict constitutional SCOTUS purist cosigns this bullshyt and suddenly go from following the document literally to "following the spirit of the law". Scalia's fatass is rolling in his grave.

But you know why they won't add our group to the constitution?codifing us in the Bill of Rights would open the door to making us a legally protected group, a la Native Americans who are named in the Bill of Rights. It would lead to us being eligible to fill grievances against this country. Reparations. Can't have that

 

[Bunchy Carter]

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.

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