In writing the part in last Saturday's posting about disaffection of Blacks in Indiana with that state's Republican Party, I summarized the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution as guaranteeing civil right to all.
Then I had to stipulate that they only applied to men.
Within a generation, they didn't apply to Chinese men in this country.
And before the civil rights amendments turned 50, they didn't apply to Japanese men here, either. Or Hindoos, or Musselmen, or Filipinos...
Just wanted to note that I would have mentioned this before, except that it was beside the point then.
Anyway, as you were saying ... ?
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