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Elie Mystal

“Our Constitution is not good. It is a document designed to create a society of enduring white male dominance, hastily edited in the margins to allow for what basic political rights white men could be convinced to share. The Constitution is an imperfect work that urgently and consistently needs to be modified and reimagined to make good on its unrealized promises of justice and equality for all. And yet you rarely see liberals make the point that the Constitution is actually trash. Conservatives are out here acting like the Constitution was etched by divine flame upon stone tablets, when in reality it was scrawled out over a sweaty summer by people making deals with actual monsters who were trying to protect their rights to rape the humans they held in bondage.”

Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
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