The second Constitution heralded through the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment says yes, the original Constitution says no.
Only through unity can there be redemption, yet legacy-immigrant America does not want to look back. Those who do not learn from the past are destined to repeat it. America’s moral compass simply expects those without shoes to “pick themselves up by their bootstraps.”
Americans live in this republic and swim in an illusion called democracy thinking if they learn the breaststroke, the oasis will turn into a lake. If we can’t agree on the basis of the government, can we unite around repairing 400 years of oppression?