Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, December 20, 2013
14th AMENDMENT DISCREPANCIES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment, written exclusively for the benefit of former slaves, and ratified for freedmen on July 9, 1868, was beneficially denied to them by a series of U. S. Supreme Court decisions for almost century thereafter, and by the states as well. Meanwhile, every other disaffected and discrete group has enjoyed its benefits: white women; gay rights groups; prisoners; aliens---anyone but the blacks, themselves.