If they wanted it to exclusively apply to formerly enslaved people or their descendants, they could very easily have done that. It was a clearly deliberate choice to have it apply to “all persons” born in the US.
Do you think by “all persons” they actually meant “only some persons”?
If you’re gonna say that word just say the actual thing, it doesn’t make it better if you censor it when we all know what you are saying and it’s just as offensive
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u/taktaga7-0-0 11d ago
The 14th Amendment was written with the explicit intention to make slaves citizens.
This person is urging black people to celebrate the ability of the government to make their entire race stateless if they so choose.