Posted on 10/28/2017 5:00:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker
The Washington Post published an article Thursday that called for a constitutional amendment to ban inequality and racist speech.
As part of the publication’s series published Thursday called, “Fix this democracy—now, 38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life,” the Post featured author Ibram X. Kendi’s proposal for “A Constitutional Amendment On Equality.”
Kendi writes that the United States needs, “an Anti-Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination.”
“The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry, as the incitement of anti-Semitism is banned in Germany. Claims that inequity is evidence of a group’s dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed. The amendment would establish equality as a human right and inequality as anti-American and anti-human,” he continues, seemingly endorsing a crackdown on free speech.
Kendi is a professor and director of American University’s “Antiracist Research & Policy Center.”
He describes himself as a, “hardcore humanist and softcore vegan.”
“The Anti-Bigotry Amendment would permanently establish a federal agency that investigates inequities and punishes institutional and individual discriminators. This Department of Equity would repair inequities caused by past discrimination. It would be charged with building a nation of equal opportunity where only the diverse materials of merit pave the roadway toward success. This is the only equitable path toward a healthy U.S. democracy,” Kendi also wrote.
Other ideas included in the Post’s 38 ideas were “Celebrate Government,” by Joan Williams, which urged readers to post photos and videos on social media celebrating how great government is.
Another idea was to “End American Arrogance,” by teaching everyone more about the past injustices of America “neuter the concept of American exceptionalism and perhaps temper American arrogance.”
That would put the Washington comPost out of business.
If they passed that, the whole DemoKKKrat Party would be in jail.
“Congress shall make no law”
Guess we need to rewrite the constitution to make the language less vague, or perhaps strengthen it with clauses like “upon threat of firing squad”
This is a straightforward proposal to repeal the First Amendment, which gets in the way of leftists controlling what others are allowed to say. That such proposals could even be published in the MSM is an indictment of how worthless and irrelevant the MSM has become.
Make it illegal to point out any real differences.
Inequality = Failure
As if the Supreme Court fell short these past 100 years to render our Constitution an instrument of social justice.
#1 - Don’t ever elect a so called African American to the office of the president.....
“”Barbara Jordan””
WHOA! She may have been a democrat but she was one of a kind...Nothing at all on the order of the others in your list...Maybe you meant Eddie Bernice Johnson?? So many others; Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Elijah Cummings.
I wonder if there is a listing of all the black members of congress..They would all qualify. The only place we have blacks who aren’t screaming “racist” is in the private sector like Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Patterson, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams..
Well, shoot - I found a list and lost it...There wasn’t a black democrat elected to Congress until 1937 - during Reconstruction they were all Republicans. If I can find it again, I’ll post it.
Every time you think they’ve reached the limit of stupidity they turn you into a liar.
Maf bees all rayciss n sheeeit.
““”Barbara Jordan””
“WHOA! She may have been a democrat but she was one of a kind...Nothing at all on the order of the others in your list...Maybe you meant Eddie Bernice Johnson?? So many others; Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Elijah Cummings.”
You’re right. I was thinking Sheila Jackson Lee (with the snake wrapped around her head and a map of the planets and moons in her hand), not Barbara Jordan.
My brain and my fingers were not aligned on that post.
Most “disparate impact” anti-science.
Sheila Jackson Lee will give you nightmares - but who on that list wouldn’t? I remember reading years ago that she lived within walking distance of the Capitol in DC and yet took a limo to work...Prepare for a shocker - she used to be a judge in TX!!!!!!! And that creepy female in the cowboy hat from FL is fond of saying, “I was a school principal.” Can’t help but wonder what gave them the idea they’d do better at being politicians! Probably more access to graft and corruption! Go in penniless and come out a millionaire several times over. Works for most!
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