RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| ohio just getting around to ratifying 14th
amendment 50 years after becoming a state. |
Ohio didn't even become a state until 1953.
No, that isn't a typo.
1953.
It seems that Ohio historians started looking at the books as Ohio
was preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary only to discover
that it had never been ratified as an official state of the Union.
How the hell did that get missed? All of this time, all of the votes
they've cast in the senate, all of the representaives they have sent
to Washington, all of the electoral votes cast over the years for
Presidents was all illegal.
So all of that time that they claimed to be the 17th state was bullshit
and they knew it.
Never trust an Ohioan.
Thanks to the quick thinking of then president Dwight Eisenhower and
much debate in Congress a resolution was passed and Eisenhower quickly
signed the papers making Ohio a state retroactive to 1803.
So happy birthday Ohio.
Your 28 years older than MTV.
Well don't look now but now it seems that Ohio has pulled yet another
skeleton out of their closet.
Apparently they never ratified the fucking 14th amendment.
You know that little amendment that freed the slaves.
It seems Ohio originally ratified the amendment in 1867 but then all
those fair minded Ohioan voters who believed the U.S. constitution
had been somehow lessened by making it actually apply to all of its
citizens not just the white ones, came back a year later and defeated
a referendum and so the Ohio Legislature rescinded Ohio's ratification
in 1868.
That brings us to now, where even in 2003 when the state legislature
recently voted to pass the measure once and for all they still didn't
get 100% of the vote.
That's right. The vote was 94-1 with the lone vote against ratifying
the 14th amendment coming from yet another misunderstood Republican,
(and you know it would be) Rep. Tom Brinkman, R-Cincinnati. |
