Cal Thomas: Demeaning, diminishing, destroying
If history proves anything it shows if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.
In the case of African Americans, it was slavery and the by the Supreme Court in 1857 that upheld that evil practice, justifying it by claiming Blacks were not citizens of the number of white inhabitants of that state. enacted by Southern Democrats went further by preventing most Blacks from voting.
