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Down Goes Silent Sam

A very discerning and honest rebuttal from the boards resident legal expert. If anyone should be interpreting the constitution, it's definitely the guy comparing a statue being pulled down to a medical clinic being bombed.
 
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it's actually really fortunate no one was injured when that statue fell. It's not like UNC-CH fans have any practice pulling down goalposts.
 
Had never heard of Silent Sam until yesterday but fuck this guy.

 
Felony disenfranchisment was never meant to deter crime, it's just a method of systemic racism

So felony disenfranchisement is only a factor to minorities? I would say it is much more driven by the prison industrial complex than racism. Locking people away is big business and prisons are one of the few areas in an otherwise capitalist model that should be run by the state.
 
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So felony disenfranchisement is only a factor to minorities? I would say it is much more driven by the prison industrial complex than racism. Locking people away is big business and prisons are one of the few areas in an otherwise capitalist model that should be run by the state.
"Felony Disenfranchisment" is specifically the removal of voting rights.
 
It disproportionately affects minorities.

I would say it disproportionately affects people of certain economic status's. Does racism play a role in your likelihood to be in a economic tier that leads you more susceptible, probably. However felony disenfranchisement itself is about $$$.
 
"Felony Disenfranchisment" is specifically the removal of voting rights.

I was thinking more of a broader picture of stripping all opportunity away from people convicted of felonies, forcing them back into crime after incarceration, with stripping voting rights just a part of it. Sorry.
 
Isn't the term "Tar Heel" a Civil War term? Can we pick a new name for their mascot too? Cheaters seems appropriate.
 
I was thinking more of a broader picture of stripping all opportunity away from people convicted of felonies, forcing them back into crime after incarceration, with stripping voting rights just a part of it. Sorry.
American "Felony Disenfranchisment" was established under the 14th amendment in 1868 during reconstruction, and it was applied most strictly in the confederate slave owning states as a way to prevent former slaves from voting, as a Jim Crow law.

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It was during that same point in history, during reconstruction, that conservative politicians began strategically granting rights and privileges to poor (non-land owning) whites and propagandizing a social and scientific "superiority" of the white race. All to prevent share cropping whites and sharecropping blacks from aligning politically.
 
It was during that same point in history, during reconstruction, that conservative politicians began strategically granting rights and privileges to poor (non-land owning) whites and propagandizing a social and scientific "superiority" of the white race. All to prevent share cropping whites and sharecropping blacks from aligning politically.

Hell, that started way back in the 17th century as a response to Bacon’s Rebellion
 
Hell, that started way back in the 17th century as a response to Bacon’s Rebellion
True. There was no tribal identity among "whites" back then, white people self divided mostly by economic class and ethnicity. Anti-black racism was a strategically artificial construct meant to prevent former slaves from attaining political power and taking retribution from former slave owners.
 
it's very telling to notice which issues get junebug's attention and which ones don't
 
Prosecute the protestors - it's civil disobedience and isn't permissible. Doesn't change that what the protestors did was the correct thing to do.
 
You can’t even get a banner taken down on that campus through legal means, why would anyone imagine that the GA would take down a statue of a celebrated traitorous terrorist through legal means?
 
Prosecute the protestors - it's civil disobedience and isn't permissible. Doesn't change that what the protestors did was the correct thing to do.

Textbook example of how liberals contribute to mass incarceration. Nevermind all the systemic racism. We have laws that need to be followed!
 
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