Michael Steele is an Ass…again… |
This mornings nomination by President Obama of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court was met by some Republicans (And some Democrats in all honesty) with a bit of unhappiness. But the magical moment came from Michal Steele when discussing the issues the GOP would have with her.
CNN.COM
Given Kagan’s opposition to allowing military recruiters access to her law school’s campus, her endorsement of the liberal agenda and her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution ‘as originally drafted and conceived, was defective,’ you can expect Senate Republicans to respectfully raise serious and tough questions to ensure the American people can thoroughly and thoughtfully examine Kagan’s qualifications and legal philosophy before she is confirmed to a lifetime appointment.”
Emphasis MINE…
What doth Mr. Steele Mean? Well theres a lovely explanation of it over on the America Blog. Ya see, the defective aspect that Steele is calling Kagan out for is actually a quote from Thurgood Marshall. Yes, THAT Thurgood Marshall.
[T]he government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite “The Constitution,” they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began to construct two centuries ago.
For a sense of the evolving nature of the Constitution we need look no further than the first three words of the document’s preamble: ‘We the People.” When the Founding Fathers used this phrase in 1787, they did not have in mind the majority of America’s citizens. “We the People” included, in the words of the Framers, “the whole Number of free Persons.” On a matter so basic as the right to vote, for example, Negro slaves were excluded, although they were counted for representational purposes at threefifths each. Women did not gain the right to vote for over a hundred and thirty years.
These omissions were intentional. The record of the Framers’ debates on the slave question is especially clear: The Southern States acceded to the demands of the New England States for giving Congress broad power to regulate commerce, in exchange for the right to continue the slave trade. The economic interests of the regions coalesced: New Englanders engaged in the “carrying trade” would profit from transporting slaves from Africa as well as goods produced in America by slave labor. The perpetuation of slavery ensured the primary source of wealth in the Southern States.
Despite this clear understanding of the role slavery would play in the new republic, use of the words “slaves” and “slavery” was carefully avoided in the original document. Political representation in the lower House of Congress was to be based on the population of “free Persons” in each State, plus threefifths of all “other Persons.” Moral principles against slavery, for those who had them, were compromised, with no explanation of the conflicting principles for which the American Revolutionary War had ostensibly been fought: the selfevident truths “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Ahem.
What…the FUCK…is wrong with Michael Steele? Does he ever think? EVER, EVER, EVER? I expressed my outrage about Mr. Steele’s commentary to a film maker friend of mine, Fahnon Bennett who said
“Yeah. Not quite shocked…people are stupid and self centered…if it doesnt affect them they generally dont care (Michael Steele is) a high ranking republican and clearly doesnt feel loyalty to blacks so much as his perception of America…”
But Michael Steele is sooo down! I thought he’d have to care just a little right? But forget loyalty to BLACKS. I’m not asking for it. I’m asking for someone to have the common sense to not co-sign a document that clearly would have treated THEM as 3/5ths of a HUMAN BEING…Seriously. I’m starting to think Mr. Steele is a bit slow. He says things that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would at least possibly RE-PHRASE. Michael Steele is why the caged bird squints its eyes and goes “Um..wha?” Why haven’t the Republicans gotten this dude out of there? I’d argue Steele’s position in the GOP says more about the relationship between them and Blacks. How as a Black guy could I ever take a party seriously that has THIS GUY as their chairman?
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