Tenth Amendment
Federalist Papers
1798
Alien and Sedition acts
Emancipation Proclamation
Rowe vs Wade
These are the answers
The question
Was what was the cause
Of the civil war
The wrong answer
If you went to school
Before
Michelle Robinson
Was "slavery"
These modern Africans
Who follow her
Don't know the days
Or rape and murder
To be the wrong color
To walk into the wrong side
Of town
To go to the wrong bathroom
Or to sit down
After the Civil War
The racism of those
Who were of various degrees
Of African
Transferred to the entire country
The war was not about
The release of enslaved people
But about State Rights
In particular
About the rights
Of the states over the federal government
When everyone goes right
They wanted the right
To remain left.
In other words
It is about the right
Of a state making decisions
Over a human being
While murder and rape
Are not acceptable violations
There are a few exceptions
The right of a woman
To end the life of her fetus
Was first not acceptable
Then the entire country
Agreed to allow it
Along with services
Of birth control
And family planning
Something previously
Not a possibility
Due to religious views
Of babies being from god
And not something to be controlled
An act against god himself.
Now we have a new version
A rejection of this federal law
To allow each state
To make the determination itself
Some states are pro life
Some are pro god
The differences
From state to state
Texas refuses
Any woman the right
Whereas other states
Find it an unnecessary hardship
On all to prevent women
From making the decision
Over their own body
Whereas there is still
Difficulties in women's health
Who gets to decide about
An unnecessary hysterectomy
One more time
I had a doctor tell me
What someone else wanted.
I don't want to loose
My ovaries just to satisfy
A fat obese idiot
Who is dysfunctional
Even with a whole bottle
Of Viagra.
Whereas the issue
Over states rights
Was that the old days
One did not cross the line
The state you were born
Is the state that had the right
To your body
Dred Scott
Was another decision
Towards a family
Migrating north
But still wanted to keep
Thier Chatel
Before I get yelled at
For the most part
Slaves
Were property of the owners
Who were not allowed to kill them
Nor rape them.
Nor starve them.
And they were even supposed
To provide religious instructions
But they could not marry.
Because they were considered
Property
Of course this is not what
Happened in some communities
While known of us want
To go back to the bloodshed
Of discussing why slaves
Were part of the American economy
They were actually part
Of the African business
Of getting rid of their neighbors
And would not do business.
If they did not get to sell them.
Abraham Lincolns
Most brilliant statesmanship
Was not the debates
Prior to his election
But bringing an end to the war
By making a proclamation
Of freeing the slaves
Allowing them to leave their masters
Until this act
The war was not about slaves
But the rights of some states
To own slaves as forced labor.
The rights of the states
To decide to defer from the federal government
It was called seditious
To remove themselves
From the power of the federal government
While Ukraine was applauded
For removing themselves from Russia
In America for a state to decide
To go their own way
Was an act of treason!
This was the cause
Of the American Civil War
The rights of the states
Coming into direct conflict
With the federal government
And the states deciding
To withdraw from the Union
They did not have this right
To demand to become a separate
Nation
They went to war over
The idea that "hell no"
We are not going to comply
And yet there was not any
Laws in the works
Over slavery
And ownership of women
So why did they cry fowl?
Because they thought to much
Of themselves
Many of the southern states
Were Catholic not Puritan
And most had lineage to royals
Hence they thought they could
Rule the world
Even royals have to toe the line.
Separation from the union
Not enforced labor
Became a cry
Of freedom
For all afterwards
Themselves included
Even the whites
Had issues with some groups
Forcing themselves into labor
Or claiming the right
Over their women
Which is where
The word Chatel
Comes from in mid Europe
The idea that a husband
Could not prevent
His landowner
From raping his wife
But that the woman
Agreed in a marriage
Contract and license
That she was one mans
And not the property
Of land owner
Or community lord or barron
That not even a King
Had the right to the wife
Of another man.
Slavery is a sad issue
But most native Americans
Still deal with difficulties
From white girls
Such as Little Feather
Wanting to be an Indian princess
To men wanting to steal their money
As the film about Flower Moon
Demonstrates.
Citizenship
Was not granted to them
Until after the first war
They did not have the right to vote
Nor make decisions for themselves
There are still those
That mislabel them
As crazy or schizoid
Not allowed to make
Medical decisions over themselves
Or to spend their money
Making the statement
Of who would send you
That much money
When in fact most
Came from communities
That were self-sufficient
Not improvised
Brainless and moraless
Current nations are now being recognized
But monetary reimbursement
Is still lacking for the amount of fraud
And alarming medical practices
I have even been told
There is an injection
To sterilize a female
To keep her from menstruating
And becoming a mother
This should be the right
Of every woman
To use safe birth control
While every man
Should have the right
Not to be taken hostage
Or forced to work
Or watch his wife
And daughter being raped
Or even the right
To own his own land
Without some fat white boy
Keep demanding to expose
Himself while he uses
The mans driver license
Or social security card.
Leaving him without
Any means of receiving
Even his military pension
Much less earned social security.
Many modern African women
Would not know why
Rosa Parks
Sat in the front
And refused to move
Back towards those men
Who were laborers
And not considered safe
This is one of the problems
In every ethnic background
Not everyone is safe
Nor did Martin Luther jr
Enjoy being in prison
His dream was meant
For more than just
Michelle Robinsons friends
But for everyone
To understand
That it is wrong
To enslave any people
Based on skin
Or gender
The underlying cause
Was the will of the state
Over the federal government
Was not seen as a safe issue
If the state did not comply
With the federal decisions
Over human beings regardless
Of race, religion or gender
Not allowing the right of one state
Demand that the federal government
Does not have the right to make them
Not commit horrendous crimes
Such as refusing their neighbors
From having certain freedoms.
Word do hurt
Certain words do now cause harm.
Fear of expressing them is understandable.
Are you aware
Of whom Henry Clay
Was to the nation?
Are you aware
That Cashes Clay
Was his descendant.
Before he married
And settled down
He had an old fashion
Love match
The product of which
Was given an inheritance
In his will of land
Acknowledging his son
And making him a land owner
Ensuring his survival
A world famous fighter
Is a descendant
Of one of the worlds famous Statesman
Who used words to fight for freedom...
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