Created Equal: How the U.S. government
has intentionally segregated
communities for generations
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
James Ford
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/1/2020 1:00:56 PM
Levittown, NY—In the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the phrase "created equal" is followed by the passage that Americans are "endowed… with certain unalienable rights," including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The writers and signers of the 1776 declaration were white, male property owners who extended those unalienable rights only to people like themselves. It wasn't until 1856 that all U.S. states allowed non-property owners the right to vote. Even that milestone allowed only white men to be full U.S. citizens, but the precedent had long been set—that ownership of property could be the root of inequity in the U.S. The discrimination and segregation
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hairy Eyeball 9/1/2020 1:14:21 PM (No. 528039)
How commie sounding.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/1/2020 1:28:16 PM (No. 528050)
Take a close look of the makeup of the government.
Democrats, the oldest continuous party in America, usually controlled everything, right up till the Civil War. They either set themselves up to be elected, not by their ideas but usually by smearing their opponents. Even Jefferson hired a man to do political research and whisper campaigns for him. That individual started the rumor Jefferson had a slave for a mistress - a smear of his own to pat the 3rd President back for not paying him what he felt he deserved.
The Federalists diminished over time and the Republican Party came to prominence as the Democrat's political opponents. Lincoln was elected, and the Democrats started the first American Civil War.
Obama was right. The evil has been here from the beginning. But he projected that evil on others. The Evil has been from the Democrats. Slavery, Ignoring law and custom as it suited them, breaking treaties, The KKK, Jim Crow, Segregation and the murder of countless blacks and the white men who championed their causes.
America is not at fault. If you're playing a game of monopoly and your opponents keep dipping into the bank for properties and money - it's not the game's fault; its your own for letting them break the rules.
I stand by my country and by its flag. Only idiots bow to the straw men of racism and injustice when all they need to do, is hold to account the Evil that has corrupted a system inspired by God, and become godly, themselves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/1/2020 1:30:41 PM (No. 528052)
More white guilt and justification for looting, arson, riots and murder from a 'Most Favored Skin Color 'person. Not one word of the 60 years of Great Society and its affects on race and poverty. Nope, its all some white guy's fault for building housing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 9/1/2020 1:30:48 PM (No. 528053)
Historical cognitive dissonance to provide cover for naked discrimination and bigotry against individuals who took no part in the racism or bigotry of the past.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2020 1:38:01 PM (No. 528057)
It's a real shame that non-land owners can vote. No skin in the game.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Texas Tillie 9/1/2020 2:08:15 PM (No. 528088)
#5, so none of the rent paid to the landlord goes to pay taxes?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 9/1/2020 2:09:22 PM (No. 528091)
And while we're at it, can we PLEASE get rid of all those irrelevant race questions on every government document from the Census form, on down!?!?!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DARling 9/1/2020 2:09:32 PM (No. 528092)
I'll bite. Show me a minority-populated, minority-run community that is a place your average middle-class family would like to live. It is not 1961. People live where they want to live, when they can afford it. No one should have to put up with using the suburbs as a Petri dish for government-mandated housing experiments.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/1/2020 2:13:44 PM (No. 528099)
Nobody but white males got off their asses and did the hard lifting. Sure couldn’t have done it without our women, but subtract white males from history, and you’re back to sitting around a campfire, beating the ground with sticks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sternben 9/1/2020 2:26:09 PM (No. 528112)
opinions are like a****les, everybody has one
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/1/2020 2:48:29 PM (No. 528126)
In the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the phrase "created equal" is followed by the passage that Americans are "endowed… with certain unalienable rights," including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Somebody help me with this...
We are created equal, but we have different abilities. We gain different knowledge. We think differently. We each have different levels of initiative. Each person is different. Are we truly equal? Should we treat everybody the same? We don't treat thieves, thugs, murderers, etc the same as everyone else. We don't treat criminals the same as everyone else.
We should all have the same opportunities? How? We are all different. We interact with different people. We have different parents. How can we all have the same opportunities?
Look at our history. Has any society ever succeeded in making everyone equal with the same opportunities? Absolutely not. They end up in dictatorships, and one group of people enslaves the rest.
We may all be created equal, and we all may have the same certain rights, but how far can this go? We aren't equal. We don't treat each other as equals. We don't get the same opportunities.
This flies in the face of everything we are taught.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/1/2020 3:13:38 PM (No. 528143)
#5- I'd rather see a W-2 be required. If you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't vote. A lot of working people are renters!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 9/1/2020 3:22:00 PM (No. 528145)
#12 A W-2 won't cut it, because a lot of the hardest working people don't get one. Self-employed for example. I definitely do agree with your main idea though.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2020 3:22:54 PM (No. 528146)
#6, I didn't say that. And that isn't my point. Renters do not particularly care what happens to the property they rent. If it is harmed by government dictates, they move on, unencumbered. No skin in the game.
Non land owners are not affected by and therefore concerned with government policies at the same level as land owners, it is just a hard fact.
I am NOT saying renters aren't, by and large, good people. Most of them are, but they are unconcerned about many civic issues which are important to land owners because those issues do not impact the renters directly or their property. They are disconnected from the results of their political choices, so often will make choices which are bad in the long run.
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Now the Marxists say private property is racist. Thought those Confederate statues applied only to the South? Guess again; tearing them down merely set the stage for an admission of guilt on a national scale, seeing how many of the Founders were slaveowners. Checkmate.