"Talking, Walking, Giving into the White Man. . . " that is how some minorities disdain the attempts by their peers to improve their lot in the world, respect the rule of law and the respect of natural right enshrined in the United States Constitution.
What has it all come to? Natural rights, those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, are for everyone. Enforcing those rights is the sole scope of the United States, which also entails securing the borders of the nation. Yet many feel that these rights, though limited and number yet responding to every fundamental need for a citizen to succeed in his or her society, are not enough. Those who have more by virtue of skill, birth, or chance, are required to offer their fortune to those less fortunate.
In spite of the unequal conditions in which individuals find themselves brought into this world, the United States ensured within the corporate interests of the nation, that the natural rights endowed in each person, applied and outlined in the Bill of Rights to be properly expressed in legal and political contexts, would be made available to all.
The Bill of Rights does not require extensive erudition to be understood, nor should the width and breadth of their interpretation rest in the hands of distant judges, uncommitted academics, or unscrupulous politicians concerned with shaping the outcomes of society as opposed to upholding the rule of law.
In the Constitution, the Framers designed a process, a network of procedures to harness the proper uses of power, preventing the ambition of ruthless crooks and starry-eyed visionaries from imposing their will on a vast diversity of persons, whose hopes, outlooks, skills, desires, hopes, dreams, and limitations--past, present, and future--would forever fall outside the scope of any one intellect to fathom and direct.
It is the height of arrogance that any constituency, that any interest group, especially those suffering under perceived grievances and historicized limitations, need a separate set of rules, or that they are permitted to be exceptions to the rule of law in order to accomplish by outcome what many perceive that they lack because of birth. Injustice at any level cannot be solved in a court of law, even as high as the Supreme Court. Inequality of station should not be interpreted as justification for diminishing the dignity and inherent powers of individuals, whether by welfare or warfare.
The legislatures of cities, states, and the federal government--elected by the people, who must educate and remind themselves of their rights and responsibilities to themselves and each other--are in a better position to rectify political misconduct and abridgement of rights throughout the nation and integrate ongoing technological innovations, which do not challenge the genius of the Constitution. For the unequaled worth of the United States Constitution originates not in predicting the needs or troubles in a growing nation, but provides a stable outline for permitting free people to live freely.
Pushing people to force government to recognize and react to groups based on culture, color, or class only obviates the true intent of the rule of law, as evidenced in the United States' framework of government: let the people elect leaders who respect an stringent respect for the rights of all, engaging the people to themselves while protecting those rights and freedom from enemies domestic and foreign.
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