A Philosophical Discussion on Minorities
The United States Government has, for a very long time maintained an affixation on the issue of minorities. Throughout the long night of slavery in the United States of America, and the continued disenfranchisement of the black race following their emancipation, we as a people, and certainly our Government has evaded the guiding principle that could have avoided it all. That principal is known as the Nature and Origin of Rights . I have covered this concept in a prior discussion and it my be of useful reference for the current topic. Random House Webster’s American Dictionary defines minority as such; 1) a number or part forming less than half of a whole, 2) a group differing from the majority, as in race, 3) the state or time of being under legal age. For the purpose of this discussion we shall concern ourselves only with number two as it is this definition with which defines the subject of this discussion. If we look at the concept of a minority in a pu...