Fair enough....
Here is a question.....Is there a possibility that without Dred Scott, and my assumption that the civil war might have been averted, would there have been a 14th amendment? Would there have been a KKK?
If not, then how would that have translated to today’s race relations and the very decision we are discussing here.
Because the 14th was what they used so therefore race relations are connected to the gay issue and has been since they pushed it out as a civil rights issue. One could remotely connect abortion as well...as it was also touted as a civil right.
I’m not a Dred Scott legal scholar. My cursory review causes me to understand the dynamics you address, but only enough to give you what may amount to a superficial answer.
I don’t believe the idea that racial relations today could be a lot different if Dred Scott had been judged differently, is a flawed one. There’s a reasoned basis for that conclusion.
Can I say that conclusion is rock solid? I’m not quite there.
I’m not a big fan of the outcome of Dred Scott. In the day with the social dynamic and the reality of the plight of slaves, it seems an understandable and yet disgusting decision.
The limbo the Black slave existed in, was a cesspool of man’s inhumanity to man.
It was a big enough problem, that simply waving a magic wand wasn’t going to resolve it.
Today Blacks are considered to be citizens equal with any other citizen. Somehow that seems to be lost on some of them.
Others pick up on that concept and run with it.
I believe ultimately that the racial hatred some Blacks have for Whites today, exists in large part due to Democrats, Jessie Jackson, and Al Sharpton.
Dred Scott and the Civil War are long forgotten. I think their real effects probably are too in the overall scheme of things.
If the Democrat divide and conqueror clowns, the race baiters, and the entertainment media elites who exploit racism for cash didn’t exist, there would be far more harmony between the races. First of all, we wouldn’t even discuss race. It would be an issue behind us.