Ep. 706 - On Tuesday MILLIONS of Americans voted to KEEP SLAVERY as punishment for a crime in their state constitutions.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Something truly inspiring happened on Tuesday. 2 red states and 2 blues states voted to remove "slavery as punishment for a crime" from their state constitutions - something that should've happened over 100 years ago. Progress can be very slow sometimes.

It's a credit to the amazing grassroots organizers on the ground that these things passed - and it's a sign that bi-partisan support exists for at least a few issues.

However, something troubling was revealed in all of this. In those 4 states - millions of people voted to KEEP SLAVERY as punishment for a crime. They were out-voted, yes, but in Oregon alone, nearly 50% of all voters, over half a million of them, voted to keep slavery.

Like....WTF? I am a student of history - and even I have to admit that I would not have guessed that so many Americans would choose to keep such an abhorrent thing enshrined in the law, but they damn sure did.

Let's talk about how truly insightful this is.

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Shaun

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0:20.6	As you may know, in the American Constitution, in the 13th Amendment, there is a clause
0:27.7	there that says, actually, we're not ending slavery.
0:33.6	We're just changing it.
0:35.9	Slavery will still be available as punishment for a crime.
0:40.8	Well, when that was put in the American Constitution, it was also put in state constitutions all over
0:48.0	the country.
0:49.8	And this past Tuesday, four states that I'm proud of all four of these states voted to remove
0:56.8	that clause, allowing slavery as punishment for a crime to remove it from their Constitution,
1:04.1	which is great and should be nothing but celebrated.
1:08.1	But in those four states, something very insightful and extremely disturbing happened, a combined
1:17.1	millions of people voted to keep slavery as punishment for a crime.
1:25.3	My question is, who votes for that in 2022?
1:30.9	Let's talk about it.
1:32.3	Let's unpack and explain it.
1:33.6	I think there's something here.
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