I am an American. These essays examine what has been done to the constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, who paid for it, and why the belief that history corrects such reversals by itself will not hold.
In 1896 Louisiana had 130,334 Black men registered to vote. By 1904 it had 1,342. Congress had repealed nothing, and no law mentioned race. The same operation is running now.
Read essay →The Fourteenth Amendment was a refounding, and it held for about thirty years. The belief that history bends toward justice is a theological inheritance in secular dress.
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