Meh. I hate the Democrats as much as anyone, but this is disingenuous. Both parties and our entire legal system always give Black Americans the shit deal and backstab them, it's not like Republicans would have done them any better.

The 13th and 14th amendments were signed into law in the 1860s, but the entire American judiciary supported every underhanded attempt to neuter the bills for Black Americans anyone took to court. It wasn't until Brown v. Board of Education that the rights promised and guaranteed to Black America gained a shred of legitimacy.

You know who instantly got legitimacy from the courts via the 14th amendment in 1919, before the Black Americans it was designed for? CORPORATIONS DID. See Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.

The courts literally gave real rights derived from the 14th amendment to corporations before they ever allowed Black America to touch them.

We've lived in a Fascist country for a lot longer than anyone realizes. You think I'm off using a charged word like Fascism? Check out the post that Ian Carroll just ratio'd the president with, our lives are dominated by corporations, and the small subset of people that truly run it all.