The Friday Flashpoints

The week ending review!

Nobody asked me but....

***Today is the 234th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, a document that when signed in 1787, my Black ancestors in bondage were considered 3/5ths of a human for census purposes.

It was only through the efforts of abolitionists of faith, a long and bloody Civil War, and 100 years of rigid Jim Crow segreg…