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I’ll get around to it.

He who laughs last…. And, I will be laughing last.

Talk about self righteous!

No, not the solution today. I proposed free post-secondary education. As for abandonment, with Kirby closure and railroad abandonment jobs left and so did people. I don’t think the west side real estate market is very solid, so abandonment may have been best option. That’s making a wild assumption that most residents owned their property to begin with. Watch The Banker on the Apple TV app.

Atonement for the sins of the fathers.

So, that absolves us. Seems like part of my moral upbringing stressed that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Yes, but it was in the Constitution. Your question was how is it enshrined. Deflect to distract from your ignorance.

William Tecumsah Sherman? Led the march across Georgia to the sea? Are you serious? He wasn’t a random dude,and had the authority to issue the special field order. Congress could have backed him up, but didn’t.

Are you kidding, or are you ignorant? Africans were chattel property. Know what that is? Livestock is chattel property, for one. That is a de facto claim that Africans were considered animal, not human. That renders your entire post false. Wake the puck up.

Just pass the ERA.

40 acres and a mule were promised in General Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 issued Jan.15, 1865. It encompassed some 400,000 coastal acres from So. Carolina to Florida. President Johnson overruled it, and it never happened. An attempt was made for some sort of reparations in that case, but the white man did as he always had as respects treatises or or promises made with parties possessing inferior bargaining power.

Ever hear of the three fifths compromise?

By their own people? What does that even mean? It was enshrined in our own Constitution, written by OUR people, and perpetuated for over 150 years after abolishment by Jim Crow laws passed and enforced by OUR people. Your bias shines brighter than a thousand suns.

I think education will fix it. Free college or post-high school technical training for African American descendants of slavery.

All I hear are White Christian Nationalist dog whistles. These folk are incapable of even imagining what 350 years of repression can do to a culture. This kind of stuff happens even today. [Hidden Content] Systemic racism is very real.

1. The privilege of Habeas Corpus shall NOT be suspended except in times of war 2. NO bill of attainder or ex post facto law may be passed 3. NO tax or duty shall be laid on any article exported by any state. 4. NO public money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriation by law. 5. NO preference shall be given by any regulation or revenue to the port of one star over another 6. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And NO person holding any office of trust or profit shall, without the consent of Congress accept any present, Emolument, title or office of any kind from a King, Prince, or foreign state. 7. NO state shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; NO state shall coin money, pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto law 8. Congress shall make NO law respecting the establishment of religion it prohibiting the practice thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, or to petition the Government for redress 9. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses , papers or effects against unreasonable searches or seizures shall NOT be violated, and NO Warrant issued without probable cause. 10. Excessive bail shall NOT be required, NOR excessive fines, NOR cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. There’s ten negatives right there. Got a problem with that? I don’t think the government owes me anything. The Constitution and Bill of Rights is an organizing document for building a free and just society like no other seen in history. Any law, tax, or administrative agency deemed to be constitutional has been passed in accordance with the law as established therein by citizens duly elected BY THE PEOPLE to perform those duties. My question to you is: How do you define a patriot?

Do you realize how vacuous that statement is? It’s no more than a sound bite.

And the cost of freedom is…?

Read the preamble to, and Section 1, Article 8 of the United States Constitution. Then explain why you think the Federal Government is not supposed to do anything on my behalf.

That kinda like what does “is” mean?

No, pal. I read Trump’s entire quote. He said, “A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution”. Now, true to form, he’s called out on it and says he didn’t say it. He says and does things that you nor anybody else would tolerate in a twelve year old.

See my reply to Baddog on the “negative liberties” quote.

There you go. Obama said “Generally, the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the federal government must do on your behalf.” Take one sentence out of context to make something appear to be what it is not. Deep thinkers need not apply here.

I have always been taught that words have consequences. You can “ maybe” this or “might have” that, like all the talking heads anywhere on the spectrum have. That’s the problem. Trump had only been held accountable for his word once - on November 11, 2019 - and even then his acolytes had to create a fantasy world of election conspiracies, so eloquently portrayed in 2000 Mules. I take him at his word. He said terminate the Constitution. Given his authoritarian tendencies, I don’t need anyone telling me what he”might have” “meant”. I find it telling that no one answered the question, “What would it be replaced with?”

I watched it. I came away unconvinced.