Investigate the institutionalized enslavement of people of color by means of convictions and incarceration.

However well intentioned the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, i submit there ought not be any exception to the abolishment of slavery. The 13th Amendment states, "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.". Slavery is indeed alive and well and so are the plantations of yesteryear, though we call them prisons. The crimes perpetrated upon freed slaves by the institution of the "Jim Crow" laws, are being revisited today, with far more heinous results for our country as a whole. We petition the president to establish a presidential council to evaluate and present solutions to correct these grievous wrongs.