Race issues caused by our government

The vast majority of race issues in American are caused by our government. First, our original constitution, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, had no mention of race/slavery. Our unconstitutional Constitution of 1787 has the three-fifths clause. Granted, race was not mentioned, but everyone knew it had to do with slaves in the South.

Then came the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott decision of 1857. The state ruled he was free based upon the Missouri Compromise of 1820 since he was taken to a free state. It took 11 years for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Where did a slave get the money to go to court for 11 years? Especially since Dred, as noted in several references, was extremely lazy and worthless. His nickname was “Old Dreadful.”

The Supreme Court ruled he was nothing more than cattle. The amazing fact is once the Supreme Court ruled he was still a slave, his owner gave Dred his freedom. Why fight the case for 11 years all the way to the Supreme Court just to free him?

Apparently the Deep State wanting the Supreme Court to legalize slavery! Why else?

The Supreme Court with the Dred Scott decision also made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The compromise stated if you took a slave to a free state, the slave was free. The compromise also did not allow for any new slave state to be formed north of Missouri's southern border out west. The Supreme Court ruled Congress had exceeded its authority in the Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36° 30'. If Congress does not have that authority, who does? It certainly does not reside with the Supreme Court. Remember, our unconstitutional Constitution says we have three co-equal branches of government. Not a ruling class that has never been elected by the people, i.e., the Supreme Court.

In 1854 Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that mandated “popular sovereignty” – allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders, thereby nullifying the Missouri Compromise. Dred was taken to Illinois before 1854, however.

Then came the Civil Rights Act of 1875 declaring all male persons born in the United States to be citizens, “without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.” However, in 1883, the Supreme Court ruled this Civil Rights Act to be unconstitutional, stating the 13th Amendment did not prohibit racial discrimination in public accommodations, thereby setting up the separate-but-equal ruling giving birth to all the Jim Crow laws.

Our unconstitutional Constitution does not give any class protection, just individual protection. All class protection is unconstitutional. Affirmative action is unconstitutional. Two wrongs do not make a right. You cannot show favoritism based upon class, race, sex, etc.

Now you have information about what/who really causes conflict between the races.

MIKE CLIFFORD

Bentonville