"It's nice, Thomas....... But where is the part about Affirmative Action?"
Like most holidays, we Americans forget the reason we have the day off. So, we here at SC6 are hoping that you take just a second to remember WHY we celebrate the 4th of July. It's not about hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and fireworks..... Trust me, those last two don't go together very well!
Nope, we have off to commemorate the day a group of men , tired of being treated as unequals while still taxed as equals, stood up against a King 3000 miles away, and demanded equality.....EQUALITY , not special treatment. If you want special treatment, move to Quebec ! If you think otherwise, let's go back and read the text............
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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government........
Sure, these were a bunch of white guys, many of whom owned slaves. They were human - not perfect. Room was made to correct any inequities that might have existed when the Declaration was written, and these amendments leveled the disparities to give people the opportunity to be equal. Somehow, our leaders have lost that sense of equality. Reparations, Affirmative Action, Quotas........ These are terms that are incorrect, misguided , and - dare I say - Un-American.
Of course, my argument is falling on deaf and paid-for ears. Maybe if politicians voted how they felt, rather than who's paying for them, our country would probably solve it's problems faster. That's not the American way , is it? Imagine if Clyburn and I had the same campaign budget.... Hey, I can dream .....
Happy Indepenence Day!!
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4 comments:
Sixth District Demographics would still pervail.
Mike, most of the 6CD was indoctrinated in the publick schools and that language is either revolutionalry or incomprehensible for folks entitled to government cheese.
They exist on the plantation to push buttons on a voting machine when directed, eat gummint cheese and cuss Bush. Interesting to note that in its early days, the KKK was consdered to be an arm of the Democrat party, though revisionist history won't allow that to be taught either.
moye, ex post facto, the Sixth has a herd of slaves that believes that it is riding on the success of Martin Luther King. Under the same notion, perhaps, I ought to ride my uncle's baptism as confirming my salvation.
There's mold on that gummint cheese and it has more initiative and wisdom that the electorate of the Sixth district, based on their trading their birthrights for a bowl of stew from Jacob.
Hey man missed a good party at Lake Marion you know my Mother and oldest Sister was born on the 4th of July and we had a spread for sure.
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