US laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citations (theconversation.com)

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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

It would be awesome if legal terms like 'grandfathered in' were ditched along with those laws. A term that was used to let white people automatically vote because their grandfather wasn't a slave shouldn't be be kept around as a reminder of Jim Crow.

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