The Constitution is Color-Blind By Clarice Feldman

[mystery-ak]

October 9, 2022
The Constitution is Color-Blind
By Clarice Feldman

This week, President Biden suggested that the federal government has engaged in racial discrimination with respect to sentencing people for marijuana possession. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives....  That’s before you address the clear disparities around prosecution and conviction.”

Ann Althouse thinks he was spouting blarney for political purposes. But if he thought this was the case, he shouldn’t have selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. She made her mark as a California attorney general in securing almost 2,000 convictions for marijuana use and possession:

    ...there is no escaping the fact that Senator Kamala Harris built her political career on her record as a prosecutor. In that position she oversaw the arrest and prosecution of thousands of people, mostly young people of color, for marijuana and other drug offenses.

    That record has her selection as Biden’s running mate being roundly criticized, and not only by progressives who see her history as a “law-and-order” prosecutor and record of fighting to uphold wrongful convictions while in office. Conservatives, particularly libertarian leaning Republicans who have long been supportive of criminal justice reform have been harshly critical of her support for prosecuting so-called “quality of life” crimes that generally involve low level non-violent offenses like marijuana charges.

Earlier, she claimed that hurricane relief would be prioritized to communities of color, something White House housekeepers quickly tried to sweep away.

More race discussions can be expected next month when the Supreme Court takes up two cases involving affirmative action in higher education: Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Initially both cases were to be heard together but when Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had been a member of Harvard’s board of overseers, was confirmed, it was decided to hear them separately. Justice Jackson will not sit on the panel deciding the Harvard suit.

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[Hoodat]

Democrats.  Opposing Equal Protection since 1836.

[Fishrrman]

The United States Constitution may indeed be interpreted as being "color blind".

But it was written -- exclusively -- BY people of a particular race, FOR people of a particular race.

Yes, there was the issue of slavery. But the founders [pretty much] chose to ignore that.

And there was the thorny issue of American Indians, who were intentionally seen as "a group apart" from the "group" of the founders.

In the 1780's, how many of the framers would have thought that there would be significant populations in their newly-created land of Chinese, Indians (east Indians), Vietnamese, etc.?

I feel confident that this never once entered their minds.

The "United States" they were creating, back then, was seen to be a gathering place for white Europeans of Christian belief...

[sneakypete]

Of course it is.

There is no mention of any one race having an undisputable right to "Life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness."

So important it was put in the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence.

Hit doan git no clearer dan dat!

[sneakypete]

Democrats.  Opposing Equal Protection since 1836.

@Hoodat

Yup,and they are still at it.

[sneakypete]

The United States Constitution may indeed be interpreted as being "color blind".

But it was written -- exclusively -- BY people of a particular race, FOR people of a particular race.

Yes, there was the issue of slavery. But the founders [pretty much] chose to ignore that.

And there was the thorny issue of American Indians, who were intentionally seen as "a group apart" from the "group" of the founders.

In the 1780's, how many of the framers would have thought that there would be significant populations in their newly-created land of Chinese, Indians (east Indians), Vietnamese, etc.?

I feel confident that this never once entered their minds.

The "United States" they were creating, back then, was seen to be a gathering place for white Europeans of Christian belief...

@Fishrrman

Complete and utter nonsense.

The second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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.