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, February 8, 2019
FUSILLADE VOTING
VOTING BY U.S.C.T. FUSILLADE
The 14th Amendment bestowed involuntary citizenship upon African Americans, just as the 13th Amendment has ended the involuntary servitude of African Americans, except for prisoners who have been "duly convicted" of crime. The term, "duly convicted," is still in 2019 subject to great legal disputation and controversy in American common law. African Americans never "voted" on either 13-14-15 (federal voting) Amendments. Rather, they "voted" by fusillade from 200,000, U. S. Colored Troops' bullets, bombs, bayonets in the Civil War! Congress passed and certain states later ratified what our "Freedom War" forbears' victory decreed.. But the federal courts dissented!