To: Do not dub me shapka broham
The mass importation of slaves from Africa and 14th Amendment "diluted" American citizenship then too.
To: clawrence3
There was no such thing as American citizenship when slaves began to be imported into the Western Hemisphere, and the 14th Amendment did not "dilute" anything.
It simply recognized the rights that had been denied to certain Americans for the better part of a century.
1,010 posted on
04/06/2006 12:49:09 PM PDT by
Do not dub me shapka broham
("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
To: clawrence3
your comparison is inflammatory and totally incorrect.
If 12 million Africans came over our borders in the 17 and 1800s they would have been shot on sight.
We all know how that slavery thing worked out for this country, dude.
Millions of Americans dead in Civil war.
1,016 posted on
04/06/2006 12:51:36 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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