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[https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/racist-roots-denying-incarcerated-people-their-right-vote by Jeffery Robinson 3/5/19 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/racist-roots-denying-incarcerated-people-their-right-vote by Jeffery Robinson 3/5/19 ACLU] | ||
The historical context for this comes from old English common law which justified the concept of “civil death” as punishment for conviction of treason or a felony because a person committing a crime had “corrupt blood,” making the person “dead in the law.” America did not immediately adopt this position because the Constitution was silent on voting rights — it neither granted nor denied anyone the right to vote. | The historical context for this comes from old English common law which justified the concept of “civil death” as punishment for conviction of treason or a felony because a person committing a crime had “corrupt blood,” making the person “dead in the law.” America did not immediately adopt this position because the Constitution was silent on voting rights — it neither granted nor denied anyone the right to vote. | ||
=====Elon Musk Was Raised Under Racist Apartheid Laws in South Africa. What Does He Believe Now?===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/11/elon_musk_was_raised_under_racist by Chris McGreal 11/2/25 DEMOCRACY NOW] | |||
Watch Part 2 of our interview with reporter Chris McGreal, who was Johannesburg correspondent for The Guardian during the last years of apartheid through 2002. His new pieces for The Guardian are headlined “What does Elon Musk believe?” and “How the roots of the 'PayPal mafia' extend to apartheid South Africa.” | |||
