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From: chenr@tilt.UUCP (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Martillo and Logic (tyranny of the majority)
Message-ID: <101@tilt.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-May-84 02:11:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  5 02:11:38 1984
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The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were designed, among other
things, to help prevent a tyranny of the majority.  However, the blacks
weren't able to do anything because they had no political power, not
being part of the recognized political society.  In the U.S., due to
the political structure, a small group can wield an enormous amount of
"stopping power", but that group has to gather that power and that entails
being a recognized part of the political society, which blacks were not then,
and in some places, still are not.


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