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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whatever the party shall devote not been thoroughly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to the jurisdiction. This is the 13th amendment. Now we may ask ourselves as a country, what does this mean for us? Well to me, this is probably the most powerful thing that Ive ever heard. This is just deeper than words on a paper, this, this text right present is the reason why I am able to stand here and talk to you today. January 31, 1865, a day and whats a beautiful piece of work was created. 1856, Dreed Scott v. Sandford a case in which an enslaved African American wrote a petition to the Supreme Court asking for his freedom. Did he win? Of course not, its 1856. The Supreme Court govern against him as well as saying that the Bill of Rights did not apply to African Americans. Let me read to you what the Constitution has to say about racism and segregation. _____________ Oh thats rig ht, it doesnt. Until 1865, commonwealth who were not straight white males were not considered to be human beings. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, can not long retain it. Abraham Lincoln 1858. A wise man, with wise words explaining that no man nor woman created by THE CREATOR should deny freedom to a person or persons because we would not want to buzz off our freedom to be denied by others. African-Americans as well as many other nonwhite Americans did not have the rights to vote in wrongful aggression of slavery, and have many other opportunities and careers such as the whites. To be seen as American and not as put in work to be uses labor. It is important to learn these things, because we can know a... ...something greater than we think it is. We, as a community must stop with the verbal abuse, to not only to the African Americans, but to any of us that may be different from ourselves. Stop the vulgar comments and wisecrack s in which we think that is funny is really a dull unsharpened arrow piercing the heart of an innocent human being just like yourself. Can I ask you something? Do we reserve jokes about Holocaust? Do we make violent slurs about 9/11? So why should racism be treated any other than? The only way to end this, is one person at a time. Looking at themselves and making an obligation to their heart saying that no long-dated will I exploit the insurreties of an individual. No longer will I put myself and my selfish desires over others feelings and emotions. Are we ready to give rise and mature as a nation as a community, as a civilization? Or, maybe its just me.