b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
yep. very difficult to read about reconstruction-era legislation (and of course the reconstruction amendments) and conclude that the intent was a "colorblind" constitution. and that's even ignoring black observers at the time who very much argued that it wasn't. — PolitiTweet.org
Kate Masur @katemasur
Hi. The Civil Rights Act (1866) is not "colorblind"! It explicitly recognizes that whites have particularly rights… https://t.co/ir753Zmah6