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> don't you think the right of black people to be free and equal to the other people was already written in the constitution 250 years ago, for example?

No, of course it wasn't. Slavery was common and accepted when the Constitution was written, and the Constitution didn't say there was anything wrong with it until it was amended in 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment.




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