The 14th Amendment

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Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It's shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control - they've all been built on the back of the 14th.
The amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
Today on the show: how the 14th Amendment has remade America - and how America has remade the 14th.
Clarification: A previous version of this episode did not make clear that the 14th amendment guarantees equal protection and due process to all people in the United States, regardless of citizenship.
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@lordvonmanor6915 6 месяцев назад

The history behind segregation is very confusing for young people to understand. Blacks were not allowed to go to White schools but Whites could attend Black schools. Students in Black schools were Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Indo-Europeans, and Anglos. Therefore not as segregated as you'd think. The same goes for housing Blacks were not allowed to live just anywhere they wanted. Therefore a Black Community consisted of Blacks, Korea Town, China Town, and Tokyo Town. Where as White communities main focus was not to be mixed "Indo" which is a new breed of humans.👍 What they don't tell you is the State's ruling party were people living in Black communities. Yet they want you to believe Black communities were inferior people when fact is most inventions, and working class people lived in Black communities. And that is why the United States was nick named Black-Amerika until after WWII. Thats when every Black community in every US State was flooded with Drugs & Guns by the US Government.