ContrabandCamp

ContrabandCamp

We Lost.

When the Supreme Court dealt the final blow to the Voting Rights Act, it completed its mission to erase the tangible results of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Michael Harriot
Apr 30, 2026
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The dictum,"once a free man, always a free man," though founded about as deeply in law, history and reason as, that "all men are born free and equal,” … [is] unimportant and ineffectual to protect the rights of citizens of slave States.

— Judge Hamilton Gamble

On March 22, 1852, America made a slave.

America’s race-based, constitutionally enforced system …

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