STATES RIGHTS ARE NOW A CALL TO DISCRIMINATE

Once again, the concept of a “Federation of States” has meaning in internal affairs. Originally, it related to protecting one state’s territory from the other state but quickly took on a connotation related to commerce. Those issues are all behind us for the most part. Now things have changed to human rights. . At a time when many people are trying to disassemble the United States Government for their purpose, they remind us of the dangers they are imposing on our “inalienable rights”. When the cry goes up for states rights, we should immediately put up our guard. Those who call for states rights are usually if not always, acting on nefarious impulses. It is never to add to individual protections but rather they want to take away one or another right. They often hide behind the façade of the Federal Government is there to protect us from foreign invaders. The truth is the government has a bigger role in protecting us from other states, which is an extension of protecting us from ourselves.

Many people in the Plantation South have never gotten over the Civil War; as ugly as it sounds to most of us, they want slavery in a new form. They know that they cannot own people, so they change it to complete dominance of people. In addition, they the desire to dominate other people has spread from black people and Native Americans to Latino, to immigrants of all kinds, and to various religious groups. We can add gay and transgender people to the list of those they want to dominate. Most surprising is the recent surge of suppression of women through limiting civil rights in health care. Most of us thought we agreed on all of these things, if not centuries ago, were decided years ago. Women suffrage became national only in 1920. However, some new issues such as those related to the recognition that homosexuality is genetic and not learned. 

A recent statement rings true; all of these issues are human rights issues and not state issues. The meaning is clear; in a Federation of States, what is a human right in one state is a human right in all states. Events in Colorado, New York City, Ferguson Missouri are all headlines with a common theme; in each case it has gone to the Federal Government for intervention through the District Courts but also in most cases they have gone on to the Department Of Justice. We need no more evidence than this. The point is that local and state governments are unable to control locally held prejudices; they needed Federal intervention to do it properly. It is not realistic to argue otherwise. Of course, the word “properly’ needs definition, which in a democracy it is whatever the majority decides is proper. The message is clear; a call for states right in current vernacular colloquial speech is a call to discriminate

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