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Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, labeled the Constitution “trash” in an appearance on ABC’s The View on Friday.
Appearing on the program to promote his new book, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, Mystal was asked by co-host Ana Navarro-Cárdenas if the Constitution “is a living document,” or a “sacred document.” Mystal responded by declaring that “it’s certainly not sacred, all right, let’s start there. The Constitution is kind of trash.”
“It was written by slavers and colonists and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn’t ask anybody that looked like me what they thought about the Constitution,” continued Mystal, who proceeded to do an impression of a 18th century slave weighing in on the document.
What’s your problem? As he explained, the Constitution as written up until after the Civil War might appear to be trash to any black person. Or to any woman before 1919.Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
"[T]he left are coming for the Constitution," seriously?Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
You regard the Constitution as a "sacred document", then?"[T]he left are coming for the Constitution," seriously?
Were you born yesterday?
The Democratic Party has been willfully and systematically violating the US Constitution since their inception in 1828. Biden's illegal federal mandates, the rent moritorium, and the CARE Act of 2020 where Congress paid hospitals for each COVID patient they reported. Those are just the more recent violations of the US Constitution.
The Democratic Party doesn't give a shit about the US Constitution. The Supreme Law of the Land means absolutely nothing to the party of "defund the police." This is what makes them leftist filth. The worst sort of scum imaginable, and why the Democratic Party has always been, and remains today, the greatest threat the US has ever known.
Way to cherrypick, dude.Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
Poked you in the eye (figuratively) didn't he?Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
The Constitution may be sacred, but that doesn't mean it is perfect, or couldn't be improved.You regard the Constitution as a "sacred document", then?
Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
I consider the US Constitution to be the Supreme Law of the Land that government is required to abide. Those who violate it should be removed from power, permanently.You regard the Constitution as a "sacred document", then?
Nope just the Supreme Law of the Land.You regard the Constitution as a "sacred document", then?
Yet another fine example of the left degrading and denigrating the nation's institutions.Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
Why not ?
It's a poorly written document - probably the worst written constitution in the Western world - and is in urgent need of a re-write.
What’s your problem? As he explained, the Constitution as written up until after the Civil War might appear to be trash to any black person. Or to any woman before 1919.
Way to cherrypick, dude.
Poked you in the eye (figuratively) didn't he?
[anti-Constitution ramblings]
You know, we don't have that Constitution as written by white slave holders, our Constitution has been amended 27 times since it was written.What’s your problem? As he explained, the Constitution as written up until after the Civil War might appear to be trash to any black person. Or to any woman before 1919.
I don't think anyone of merit or power is listening to Mystal. So don't worry, no one is going after the Constitution.Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
I think that an eminently fair and objective conclusion.I think Elie Mystal is also another race-baiting jerkoff contributor from MSNBC.
It is not sacred.The Constitution may be sacred, but that doesn't mean it is perfect, or couldn't be improved.
It is sacred, which means it is a priceless antiquity to God, to remind Him of His work.
They who are coming for the Constitution and the Founding Documents?^^ As I said, they're coming for th Constitution, and this is what's called the "softening them up" stage.
First they came for the statues, they came for the names of elementary schools, they came for historical memorabilia, they came for the police, they came for the businesses, they came for the nations founders, and next up...
They're coming for the Founders Documents, all of them. It will be claimed, and is being claimed now via BLM and 1619 Project, that the Constitution is the embodiment of inequality, and that race, ethnic, and gender equity demand its repeal and replacement.
The above responses prove how easy the support will come. What follows their demands will be their violence to make it happen.
What is so special about 1619, and if you tell me that is when the first slave were brought into America then you need to learn your history.They who are coming for the Constitution and the Founding Documents?
The Langoliers?
Or would you rather use the "thug" codeword?
I bet you have no clue what the 1619 Project is or what its goals are.
Don't worry about the Founders Declaration of Independence, the Founders tossed that one into the trash in essence even before they sat down to whack out a wealthy White Man's Constitution guaranteeing wealthy white men's privilege.
That pesky phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
History notes that pesky phrase was not writ into the Constitution because the slavers would have none of that "created equal" crap in their Constitution, they wouldn't ratify unless they got to keep their "human property."
You know what is equally sad about the U.S. Constitution, besides being a racist document out of the gate, it was also a gender biased document right out of the gate. Heck it didn't even give or guarantee white women suffrage until 1920 when that FIX to the flawed document was made.
They deservedly came for the rebel traitor statutes and rebel school names erected and placed to honor people who fought for the institution of slavery and (in) and for a war to destroy our Nation.
Hell yeah it was long past time to dump those affronts to all that is moral and decent in our land!
The Original Constitution as written and ratified was exactly that a document that was the embodiment of inequality.
That is a fact that cannot be denied.
It is obvious to me you got poked in the eye, bigly, if figuratively and are scared of "others" making assertions that just might lead to greater equality and freedom FOR ALL!!!
They who are coming for the Constitution and the Founding Documents?
The Langoliers?
Or would you rather use the "thug" codeword?
I bet you have no clue what the 1619 Project is or what its goals are.
Don't worry about the Founders Declaration of Independence, the Founders tossed that one into the trash in essence even before they sat down to whack out a wealthy White Man's Constitution guaranteeing wealthy white men's privilege.
That pesky phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
History notes that pesky phrase was not writ into the Constitution because the slavers would have none of that "created equal" crap in their Constitution, they wouldn't ratify unless they got to keep their "human property."
You know what is equally sad about the U.S. Constitution, besides being a racist document out of the gate, it was also a gender biased document right out of the gate. Heck it didn't even give or guarantee white women suffrage until 1920 when that FIX to the flawed document was made.
They deservedly came for the rebel traitor statutes and rebel school names erected and placed to honor people who fought for the institution of slavery and (in) and for a war to destroy our Nation.
Hell yeah it was long past time to dump those affronts to all that is moral and decent in our land!
The Original Constitution as written and ratified was exactly that a document that was the embodiment of inequality.
That is a fact that cannot be denied.
It is obvious to me you got poked in the eye, bigly, if figuratively and are scared of "others" making assertions that just might lead to greater equality and freedom FOR ALL!!!
What is so special about 1619, and if you tell me that is when the first slave were brought into America then you need to learn your history.
There were no slaves in America until 1642, that is when Massachusetts was the first State to pass any slave laws. Blacks came to America in 1619 as indentured servants and were treated the same as any white indentured servant. After their contract was up, normally 5-7 years, they were free people, they were give property and supplies by the person they worked for.
Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’
Like I've said many times, the left are coming for the Constitution.
This is part of the media tour and promotion. Essay's, books, and interpretive dance numbers are next, and that's when NPR will pick up on it.
Only because you are incapable of truly comprehending what you read.That's a great writeup. You've convinced me that you, and people like you, are coming for the Constitution.
That's what the guy in the article I posted is doing; softening up the crowd, so that you can boldly come out in the open.
But there are other people who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
You're advocating setting yourself up against America the government and Americans the people; that's treason.
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