1787: white, male landowners selected by other white, male landowners meet in Philly to make corrections to the Articles of Confederation. Instead they made a grave mistake when they wrote The Constitution. Compromise was reached for the “Land of the Free” to recognize...1/5

& protect - slavery. (“three fifths of all other persons” (Art. I, § 2); “Importation of such Persons” (Art. I, §9). The Framers were scared the 13 former colonies would not hold our own. For what? So that we would be #1 in unofficial World rankings? What might have happened? 2/5

Slavery was dying. If the Deep South faced isolation, and the Middle-Atlantic States had formed a second nation, a third would have been the Northeast. Maybe genocide against indigenous ppl would have been less, because perhaps the Louisiana Purchase wouldn’t have been. 3/5

The institution of slavery would have ended sooner. Millions would not have faced genocide in a different form. The Civil War is far less likely to have happened. In this light, The Constitution required compromise and put a deep crack in the foundation of The Land of the Free. 4/5

We still face/fight, incrementally, the effects of slavery. Finally a Black woman is to be named to the Court. I’m Mark Small. I’m pro-choice, pro environment, pro-civil rts & pro-democracy. I’m GOP candidate for Ind House Distr 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 5/5