Ex-”Love Connection” host Chuck Woolery came out from under whatever rock he’s been hiding under for the past 20 years to disavow civil rights and gay rights.
“Majority rules,” he said, referring to the Proposition 8 vote in 2008. “We were born with national rights. We don’t need civil rights. [African-Americans] don’t need civil rights. They don’t need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I’m discriminated against all the time. I don’t care. It doesn’t bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I’m old.”
I've already covered the legal grounds of Prop. 8 so I won't cover it again. Essentially California law never recognized same sex marriage and operated under the definition of husband, wife and marriage as understood under English Common law so Prop 8 should never have been proposed, much less passed. It was unnecessary.
But the point about "national rights" is right on the money and I don't think Chuck Woolery meant "natural rights" as suggested by the writer. Chuck Woolery covered "natural rights" in his "inalienable rights" part of his commentary (which in reality was not meant to include those persons deemed "savages").
I have long argued that actual citizens do not need a civil rights act because actual citizens have their rights protected under law. case in point, The litigation that happened around Jim Crow was not to secure the rights of white citizens. Why? They were citizens and were accorded all the rights and privileges of citizens. Blacks were being denied their rights as citizens. That is, when the 14th Amendment stated that the States could not pass any laws that abridged the rights of US Citizens, which the 13th Amendment included those of African descent, the States were in clear violation of the Constitution. Each and every law they passed were violation of stated "national rights" of blacks. It was the failure of the courts and other government bodies to enforce the constitutional rights of blacks that was the problem.
So to anyone who can actually read (which yes, I failed at yesterday...ha ha haaaa) it is clear that Chuck Woolery does not mean that African-Americans did not have or should not have civil rights. Rather Chuck Woolery is dead on that if you are a citizen you are ALREADY covered.
But trust the Negroes to get this wrong.