PVF- 20-38
Political and civil rights are very different.
Should government be allowed to control our opinions or feelings? how much of our rights that they protect can they restrain for others rights.
How many amendments should be made to protect one group over another? when should it become just basic rights for all and not just for some.
People who argued against congress having power to be allowed to enforce the civil rights act are hypocritical because they were all for the government enforcing the slave fugitive act.
Taney says Bradley sacrificed substance and spirit in the recent amendments. Harlan wanted a better defined amendment
- Tourgee cheated the system by waiting for people to change to a more favorable crowd and by getting the public more vocal about it
- Black people accidentally hurt their own cause with the hand speech by giving a good metaphor for keeping separated.
- Tourgee knew that just using nurses as the example wouldn’t fully get the law fixed, but he had to go deeper to the full law as an example of being color blind to really get the law to change and no longer be “white’s happiness at blacks expense”
- He really milks the fact that white’s are so much better, and to determine that plessy, a 1/8th black man, wasn’t white should’ve been illegal because it took away his property without due process.
TMM 62-82
“inferior material (poor brains , bad genes , or whatever).”
Based on scientific argument in history of racial.
That’s crazy that black people were known as inferior and were not able to get education like whites based on their biological and cultural-roots. – unjustified.
In this chapter, includes the views of Benjamin Franklin over the African Americans (Black people).
This biological written chapter is extremely strong. Especially the illustration/pictures are strong.
Distinguished the human races and the ranked them.
Arguments (soft and hard).
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