Commentary The other day on “The View,” a gentleman named Elie Mystal attacked the Constitution with an argument so astute it only could have come from the mind of a Harvard educated lawyer. From the comfort of a multimillion-dollar TV show, Mystal declared that the Constitution is “kind of trash.” “It was written by slavers and colonists, and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists,” he continued. “They didn’t ask anybody who looked like me what they thought about the Constitution.” The Constitution is trash, he concluded, because it “was written without the consent of black and brown people in this country.” To look at Mystal’s opinions more closely, in the book he was promoting, the profanity-laced “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution,” he claims that the Supreme Law of the land is really just “a document designed to create a …
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