>>99957415>Luke's pushing it too much trying to make it about raceHe's not trying to make it about race. He's making a very good analogy that the SHRA, as originally presented and as it was being enforced at that time, was forced upon people as a result of accidents of birth or other accidents.
Sure, you can - as a Stark-like cape - for example refuse to register and simply put your inventions beyond use. Then you don't have any reason to register; it's anti-innovation, but then lots of things are hurdles to innovation.
Luke Cage has his powers as a result of an illegal experiment in which he was used as a test subject under duress. He didn't seek them, he just got them. He's at home, with his girlfriend (and now wife) and newborn, and SHIELD's "Capekillers" (that's literally how they referred to themselves) in Stark-designed armor come for him. They blow up the street he lives on at midnight because he hasn't registered by the deadline. There's no "you can walk out of here", they're even pretty aware that, because of the nature of his powers, they don't really have a lot of means of hurting him, let alone subduing. But they blow up his street because he didn't sign up to work for the government - under SHIELD, which had at that time most recently been compromised by the Hand, and has several times prior to that been taken over by other groups, including HYDRA - because he saw (correctly) that congress had no power to enact and no state or federal agency therefore had the right to enforce a law which places a US citizen or any other person residing within US jurisdiction into bonded servitude, forced labor, truck, or slavery.
It's very much about the 14th Amendment, which - as it arose out of questions of what to do when slavery had officially ended - is about race. You're right in that slavery and indentured labor aren't the same thing (if the latter is entered into voluntarily) but so far as the US constitution is concerned, they may as well be.
