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Originally Posted by spacedog
Thanks for proving a point. That exact mentality and point of view is the one and same preached in black liberation theology as well as by african american racists. It is my opinion that Obama feels the same way about it, and that's one reason he should never be entrusted to ever be in the office as President of The United States of America.
You are an ignorant fool if you think "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL" only applies to white men who owned property. "MEN" in that quote is not in the context of singular identity, but "MANKIND", meaning, ALL HUMAN BEINGS.
These documents were not written with any separatism and anyone implying otherwise is uneducated. The writers of these documents did not give us these rights, they ACKNOWLEDGED THEM as our rights as human beings.
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The constitution expressly discusses slaves (although it is careful not to use the word slave). Not to mention that slaves were never even considered to be covered under the constitution. They were considered property and ruled under individual slave laws in each state that were in part written by our founding fathers. Lets not forget that many of our founding fathers owned slaves of their own.
And our founding fathers didn't mention women. "All
MEN are created equal". To believe that they assumed men to mean mankind is absurd. Women were treated as second class citizens with no rights. The laws our founding fathers put in place didn't allow them to have these rights.
You can pretend our founding fathers were somehow card carrying members of the ACLU, but they weren't. Few of them fought to have women's rights expanded, and fewer to abolish slavery. The term "consent of the governed" specifically meant men who owned property. It is why they were the only ones allowed to vote.
And the irony in this whole discussion is that you take the liberal position in this argument. You take the position Barack Obama would on the interpretation of our rights. It is conservatives who didn't believe those documents gave the right for women to vote, blacks to be free, or you to promote porn. If those are your true beliefs, you should be voting for Barack Obama.
Nonetheless, you didn't answer my question. What freedoms and liberties are we going to lose? It is my opinion that we have much more freedom now than we ever did. Women can vote, blacks can do whatever they want, and I have the ability to protest my dislike for the government. How can you possibly believe that we had more freedom back then?