... a pro-slavery document.
Perspective
"We should not be shocked or surprised that the Constitution protected slavery. Slavery, after all, was a powerful economic institution."
Well, this is what William Lloyd Garrison was trying to say!
"slavery was also clearly a special, even
peculiar, kind of property. Slaves were also people. They could resist their enslavement and try to escape from it; they were thinking beings who could challenge, in a variety ways, their condition."
This statement means a lot to me even today, in that we need to be apart of a struggle.
"Slavery was also a system of racial control."
Fear factor
" In the end we cannot ignore the fact that
the Framers in 1787 built a government that protected slavery at every turn."
Again, this is what William Lloyd Garrison was trying to say.
"As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that
the cost of slavery for our national culture--and our Constitution-- has
perhaps not yet been paid. Perhaps some of the debt must still be paid in the coin of the realm, with investments in education, …
But, before we contemplate such payments, we must first come to terms with our history, our culture, and the proslavery origins of our Constitution and our nation."
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/slavery04.htm
Well, that means that they will never correct their atrocities, because that would mean they would have to stop lying and tell the truth...and the truth is not in those kind of beings. Hopefully, we will struggle for freedom but at the same time, don't sell out for less.
It is also sad that so many Black Americans believe in the lie in that slavery ended in 1865, when it never did, as this document attest but then, so many other issues should prove that too, but it has been ignored. White Surpemacy is supported by Black people and this goes back way before this system set up, otherwise, it would not have been able to set up.