YOU OUGHTA KNOW BETTA

"13 percent of the population. 50 percent of the crime."Few numbers in America have shaped public opinion more.But statistics don't speak for themselves, people do.In this episode, Unicorn investigates one of the most debated statistics in modern America through the lens of crime data, policing, exonerations, drug enforcement, history, and public policy.Because a statistic can be accurate…and still tell an incomplete story.And when a number becomes a worldview, the stakes become a lot bigger than math.

Most Americans can tell you what the 13th Amendment did.Far fewer can tell you how the sentence ends.In this episode, AJ Miller examines one of the most debated words in the Constitution:  EXCEPTWhy did Congress abolish slavery while allowing an exception for punishment after conviction? What did lawmakers intend? What happened immediately after the amendment was ratified? And why are states still rewriting their constitutions nearly 160 years later?From the debates surrounding abolition to Black Codes, convict leasing, prison labor, and modern reform efforts, this episode follows the history, the receipts, and the questions that continue to shape the conversation today.Because sometimes the most important part of a law isn't what everybody remembers.It's the part they stopped reading.

The constitution is a battlefield. Let's navigate the timeline and decisions that got us here.