re: State Rep says Declaration of Independence is racist

Probably black. ... Pitiful

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You do? Can you explain it to the rest of us?

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From the second paragraph of my post:

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She has a problem with the preamble stating "all men are created equal," yet at the time slavery existed here.

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I'm not saying that I agree with her, I just understand the argument she is poorly trying to make. She doesn't feel like her people were represented In the preamble, and therefore thinks it is unfair to the demographic she represents to have to learn to recite it.

Of course her opinion is incredibly narrow minded.

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I just understand the argument she is poorly trying to make. She doesn't feel like her people were represented In the preamble, and therefore thinks it is unfair to the demographic she represents to have to learn to recite it.

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The entire point is laughably uneducated and ignorant of history, but I'll play along,

By that logic, is it OK if only the upperclass white privileged land owning males recite it every day?

Also, is it OK if gay people only learn American history from 2012 onward, black people only learn it from 1965 onward, women still don't get to learn it, but white upperclass males get to fully participate in and appreciate a full education?

It certainly gets silly, doesn't it? Why allow the context or the messenger to sully the message?

Every metropolitan area that has a decent black population has one just like her. She gets reelected every election even though her district has the highest crime, murder rate, unemployment rate. Yet they re elect them. Yep she is fighting for the people

We got corrine brown out here

Fightin for Da people baw

She's right you know. Women, native Americans, poor whites and blacks were either property or second class citizens.

I mean you could make a pretty good case for the original unamended US Constitution being at least a bit racist but the Declaration didn't have any racist stuff in it at all.

Now it's pretty obvious that America didn't come anywhere one to living up to the promise of its ideals at the time of its founding, but that's kind of the story of American history-- struggling sometimes violently to live up to the promise of its founding. Hell, the Confederacy quite specifically was founded on rejecting the promise of America in favor of entrench in in word and deed the idea of eternal white supremacy.