suspenseful. more than 24 hour was aa primary race closed, key to which party holds the senate next year, the biggest primary of the year has stretched into night two, with the two gop senate kcandidates deadlocked. david mccormick and trump endorsed mehmet oz. thousands of mail-in ballots are still being counted. and even after they re counted, this dead heat race is likely headed to an automatic recount under pennsylvania law because of the slim margin. so, both oz and mccormick have already acknowledged that still isn t over. in fact, there s a process. we have ten of thousands of mail-in ballots that have not been counted. we re not going to have a result tonight. when all the votes are tallied, i am confident we will win. the process remains. but here comes donald trump today on his social media site, ripping a page right out of his own playbook that his endorsed candidate, oz, just go ahead and declare victory. why? he said so it s, quote, harder for them to cheat.
first amendment. just because i don t happen to abide by your principle doesn t mean i don t have any right to say it and you ve got to legislate against me. how do you bridge that gap? well, look, the great historian steve morse, better known as stevie wonder, said the first man to die. don t be trying to lecture black people about loyalty to this nation. we were loyal to this nation when this nation refused to feed us, treated us like chattal slavery, otherized us, and we stood tall. america has been at its best when its ideals have been articulated but lived out within the freshly concrete context of african american struggle. only when black and brown and red and yellow and peoples of color come along to embody the ideals that america put forth brilliantly but contradicted
others. regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice. but while we trumpet ratification of a 13th amendment, let s also take a moment to read it carefully. neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states or any place subject to their jurisdiction. notice that, except as punishment for crime. this often forgotten clause. the little carve out for continued slavery and involuntary servitude so long as it is in response to conviction for a crime. chattal slavery fell in the aftermath of passage of the 13th amendment. but the modern incarceration state was born in those same years. it began with a convict lease system that returned many newly emancipated black men to the very plantations where they had