But I listened to the interview where this comment comes from. He's saying that racism against blacks was THE fundamental flaw of our nation, and I absolutely agree.
I wish we'd never had slaves. No slaves, no civil war. No civil war, no loss of states rights. No Jim Crow, no loss of states rights, no civil rights movement needed. No civil rights movement, no achilles heel for leftists to exploit and gain the moral high ground. The commies have been exploiting this weakness all the way back to the Scottsboro boys.
Hell, no slavery, probably we'd never have had the great society, welfare, inner city gangs, debasement of culture. Slavery and racism against blacks absolutely was our fundamental birth defect, and it definitely haunts us to this day. Look at Katrina. No slavery, no 9th ward.
I think the analysts in that interview got some things wrong though. They saw the 3/4ths compromise as a concession to the slavers. I see it as holding the line against the slavers. They believed they had to get a Constitution, and preserve the Union, and deal with the rest later. I think they were right. And of course Obama seeks to further exploit this birth defect of ours. But I can't say he is incorrect in this statement. The other statements he made are worthy of scorn. This one does nothing for me.
What he is in fact referring to is his own overarching view that the Constitution should provide socialist guarantees of redistribution of money from those who earn it to those who do not. That is his core economic philosophy, and that is his objection to the United States Constitution:
That is the "fundamental flaw that continues to this day" in the worldview of B.O.