Borislav, Mijov, Borovic

Let's talk about the legal architecture of American slavery for a moment. Because the question of responsibility is not only about who sold whom to whom on the West African coast. Responsibility also attaches to: The Virginia legislature of 1662, which passed the law establishing that the status of a child followed the status of the mother, meaning that the children of enslaved women were born enslaved, regardless of their father's status. This is the law that made slavery multigenerational and self-reproducing in the American context. The United States Constitution, which counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of congressional representation, giving slaveholding states more political power, while denying them any legal personhood. The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, which required citizens of free states to return escaped enslaved people to their owners. The Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Black people had no rights that a white man was bound to respect. These laws were written, passed, and enforced by white American legislators, judges, and presidents. Tell me which African kingdom wrote those laws. Tell me which African ruler sat on that Supreme Court. Tell me where, in your VASTLY MORE, the Virginia legislature of 1662 appears. The legal infrastructure of American slavery was entirely a white American construction. Your argument does not touch it.

Beograd, 23. maj: Na protestu „Ti i ja, Slavija" okupilo se između 180.000 i 190.000 ljudi. Procena AJS zasnovana je na izmerеnoj površini skupa od 107.000 m² i koeficijentu prosečne gustine od ≈1,7 osobe po m². Drugi najveći protest u Srb od pada Miloševića. Foto: N. Jovanovic

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