User talk:172.112.96.3

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declares that "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." https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html

Despite this, while the page does state...

"The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime..." before that on the second paragraph it states, "They abolished slavery...," which it did not do.

The conflicting statements on the page that slavery was "abolished" by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not true. The Amendment states that slavery is permitted as "punishment of crime." To be truly abolished, slavery must be removed completely from the U.S. Constitution in order for you to state on the page that it was "abolished."

What the page also does not do is provide the opposing international law of slavery as "punishment for crime." International law, in the form of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which all member countries must adhere to, states the only grounds on which the page can state slavery has been "abolished"... only if it is abolished in ALL its forms, leaving convict slavery against international law and a violation of human rights.

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights

Not balancing the information with the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights tends to hide facts and allow the U.S. to appear to be doing no harm or human rights violations to its own citizens.

"Punish for crime" is not abolishment. And you page's misstating and confusing the facts serves to continue putting African Americans in harm's way. American justice reform will require removing slavery as a crime from the U.S. Constitution. And the page supporting the facts will help.

Misleading and/or confusing readers about the facts, especially not stating the conflicting international law, adds to the continued injustice in America and the discrimination, brutality and murder of African Americans by police.

It would also be helpful to compare American Constitutional slavery with that of China: America is roughly half the population of China but has twice the convict slaves of China. And both China and the U.S. are both breaking international law that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights prohibits.

While the Wikipedia Support page states, "None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages," the page is directly supporting and promoting continued American slavery with all the injustice, brutality and murder against African American citizens.

I am asking that you help correct the misleading and false information on the page as just one small step in ending the needless and senseless bloodshed of the lives of African American citizens.

Thank you for supporting fairness, facts and ending slavery in America by exposing the fact that slavery still exists Constitutionally in America.

Legesse Allyn AncientGebts (talk) 21:23, 11 July 2016 (UTC)