Posted on 03/05/2022 5:26:44 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that the United States Constitution is “trash” written by slave-owning white people.
Discussing his new book “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution,” Mystal said, “Republicans are obviously trying to manipulate those laws, particularly the rights of minorities, women, and the LGBTQ communities, and I explain it in ways we can understand so we can fight them.”
Co-host Ana Navarro said, “I live in Florida, so I’m, like, on ground zero of where all of this is happening. I’m out of my mind about the bills banning conversations about race and ethnicity and LGBTQ, just even mentioning gender identity in primary schools…Are you arguing for throwing out the Constitution? Should the Constitution be thrown out? What do we do? Is it a living document, or is it a sacred document?”
Mystal said, “It’s certainly not sacred. Let’s start there. The Constitution is kind of trash. Again, let’s just talk as adults for a second.”
Co-host Joy Behar said, “What did you say?”
Mystal said, “It’s kind of trash. It was written by slavers and colonists and white people willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn’t ask anybody who looked like me what they thought about the Constitution.”
He added, “This document was without the consent of black and brown people in this country and without the consent of women. I say if that was the starting point, the very least we can do is ignore what those slavers and colonists and misogynists thought and interpret the Constitution in a way that makes sense for our modern world.”
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Makes me sick that this show still has an audience.
Considered to be one of the finest establishment documents
in world history, the U. S. Constitution gives power to
the people, and not the government.
I’m not an expert on the subject, but I believe it’s the
only national document in the world that addresses things
that way.
This guy thinks the more outrageous his comments are, the
more publicity he’ll get.
This guy should have been the proverbial tree in the
forest, with no one around.
It’s sad some folks will listen to him, and say, “Yeah
that’s right. Those founders didn’t look like me.”
Neither did Jesus Christ.
How about if we start getting rid of it by tossing out that 13th Amendment, Fat Boy Mystal?
Incorrect. Every day he has to trudge over to KFC to get a bucket for dinner. That's a lot of work!
Funny how all these black communists hate this country with a passion, yet they never leave. Go to North Korea. Go to communist Cuba. Hang out in Venezuela. Go somewhere. And shut the fuck up when you get there.
OMG! Right after Black History Month you are talking about a Black man hanging in Venezuela. I am so triggered!
Moderators! Over here! There's a racist on this site, a Klu Klux Klansman!
Oh, I need my smelling salts...
So am I. And this particular idiot does not seem to realize that the post-Civil War civil rights act and the 14th Amendment and its guarantees of equal protection and due process were written to protect the constitutional rights of newly freed slaves. Advocated for by Frederick Douglass and other Black abolitionists and civic leaders, their protections are stated generally and help assure that everyone’s rights are more secure. That makes them a major accomplishment by and for Black America for the sake of all Americans. As odious as slavery was, the ending of it made America’s constitutional system better and more fair.
Time for a well reasoned and peaceful separation of the former United States of America.
State and county borders are a solid historical reference point from which to start.
Bottom Line - 332 million hugely diverse people can never be peacefully governed as one nation.
Mystal should actively seek refuge in a country more to his liking. An African country might be an option, but he would be lost in a different world and culture; and he would lose the black privilege and protected-class status that he enjoys here.
ROTFLMAO! REAL GOOD ONE!
somewhere there is a circus missing a clown. Just to look at him screams take me seriously. A black man with a white bozo afro, yeah I can see that everything he spews from that mouth is pure intelligence
He is yet another negro who makes racism seem like a good idea.
“ If slavery hadn’t existed, this clown would have been hacked to death by a rival African tribe, died of disease, malnutrition or starvation, or mauled by an animal predator. Assuming if he’d been born to begin with.”
If North American slavery had not existed he never even would have been born. His ancestors never would have met to procreate. I am not endorsing or excusing slavery but it is kind of ironic that most of those who use North American slavery to bludgeon and demean the United States, owe their very existence on earth to that same slavery.
Elie Mystal - Aggressive, Unapologetic...And Right
https://www.lawcrossing.com/article/6228/Elie-Mystal-Aggressive-Unapologetic-and-Right/
Mistal forgets that people were enslaved because they were inferior and decidedly unequal.
Who is this and why should I listen to him?
Re: 71 - You’re comment makes you appear ignorant and unable to argue his claim.
Do better.
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