re: 148 Years Ago Today: 14th Amendment was Ratified

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I RA'd your RA

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More down votes than up votes about African-Americans being granted citizenship on this site.

What?

You are saying that you have an African-American wife who should not have become a citizen until she married a white man? Are you white?

I'm trying to make sense of what you're saying here.

In a few words...

Kind of.

And yes.

Geez.

She was born here?

Or, is she actually from Africa - as in born in Africa?

If she was born in the United States and you don't think that she should have been granted citizenship until she married you, a white man, that's pretty screwed up. Very screwed up.

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The foundation for equality is laid, don't let people tell you otherwise, but it takes affirmative action to dig out of the hole.

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FIFY

signed, Libs.

Women aren't capable of real citizenship.

A married woman at least has her husband to tell her when she's being an illogical shrew.

Downvoters need to realize that the protections in the Bill of Rights would not even apply to limit state laws if it weren't for the Due Process Clause in the 14th and some liberal application of it by the Supreme Court. (The incorporation doctrine.)

Without that, the Bill of Rights limited only the federal government.

Take away the 14th and that liberal incorporation doctrine, and our state governments could have a state church, take all guns, search our homes any time, etc.