[misterwhite]

"Black people of African Descent were ruled to be sub-human, never worthy of the rights of full citizenship."

In Dred Scott I believe slaves were ruled to be property. It makes no sense to extend rights to property.

[bvw]

Oh? Why is that? What do you mean by “property”?

Best if you quote Taney and build from his actual wording.

[Sherman Logan]

The most important aspect of the Scott decision was that it ruled people of African descent, whether slave or free were not and never could become citizens of the United States.

That is very different from just viewing slaves as property. It was an attempt to embed racism into the Constitution itself, which had never mentioned the subject. Or for that matter, slavery itself. The Founders very carefully referred to the institution with euphemisms rather than pollute a document enshrining freedom with the word slave.