Re: Race Relation In Our Myth
I was able to listen to your show last Saturday and I thank you for given my email a fair broadcast. Nevertheless, we can agree on this point. Yes! The discussion of race is a “messy” issue. If you have ever played 52 pickup sticks as a kid, you know the difficulty of the game. Although we agree that race is messy. With one caviar, how is race view and through who prism. Black-Americans are proud to be black. From our nation’s founders to the present, White-Americans have the sins of guilt of intolerance of race by law and institutionalize racism. They wrote laws to exclude everyone except them, i.e.: slaves, native-Americans, women, etc. It was the reason the “Bill of Rights” and other amendments was needed in the first place. Yes, I know that whites say; they are not responsible for the past sins of their father. In this instance, you are. If we can acknowledge our past, we can find common ground and deal with the awkward reality of racism hopefully. The gentleman who spoke eloquently of life in North Omaha in the past is the ones trying to educate your listeners of being Black and proud.
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is settle law. On the topic of who is a citizen of the United States Section 1 explains it very well. I thought that more clarification was needed on a couple of points:
“…person born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”
exempted those, like children of foreign ambassadors, who are born in the nation
but that the laws of diplomatic immunity do not subject to its laws.
It might also apply if children were ever born in the United States to foreign occupiers or invaders.”
“…person born in the United States so that it includes not only those who are born on
U.S. soil (legally called jus soli, law of the soil), but also those born to an American
or citizen aboard (jus sanguinis, law of blood).”
(Source: ‘A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, 4th Ed’: John R. Vile)
There are no ambiguities of who is or not a citizen. If Rand Paul, republicans, conservative or birthtiers intent are to amend the Constitution; then they are living dangerously. May God help us! We do not have to worry about the enemy who are trying to attack us from afar; we need to worry about the enemy within us which is our own prejudice.
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is settle law. On the topic of who is a citizen of the United States Section 1 explains it very well. I thought that more clarification was needed on a couple of points:
“…person born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”
exempted those, like children of foreign ambassadors, who are born in the nation
but that the laws of diplomatic immunity do not subject to its laws.
It might also apply if children were ever born in the United States to foreign occupiers or invaders.”
“…person born in the United States so that it includes not only those who are born on
U.S. soil (legally called jus soli, law of the soil), but also those born to an American
or citizen aboard (jus sanguinis, law of blood).”
(Source: ‘A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments, 4th Ed’: John R. Vile)
There are no ambiguities of who is or not a citizen. If Rand Paul, republicans, conservative or birthtiers intent are to amend the Constitution; then they are living dangerously. May God help us! We do not have to worry about the enemy who are trying to attack us from afar; we need to worry about the enemy within us which is our own prejudice.
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