CURIOUS

Curious how the “law of ‘93 and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 were constitutional, binding not only on the State but on each citizen of a State’” as correctly noted by leader, Frederick Douglass, in LIFE AND TIMES; but the Supreme Court in the “Civil Rights Cases” of 1883, and in the “United States v. Cruikshank” , 1876, said that the 13th and 14th Amendments’ provisions were not applicable to private persons, but only to the States in criminal or civil cases. Thus, in “Cruikshank” white terrorists, murderers of black voters in Louisiana in 1872 were freed; and in the “Civil Rights Cases” combined from five states, public accommodations, public transport, and theaters were and could be legally denied to black patrons too! Such “in-your-face” legal skullduggery persists even into the present day with respect to the privileges, immunities of blacks in comparison to whites’ in the United States of America under Trump!