Author and far-left justice correspondent for “The Nation” Elie Mystal, who you may recall from his numerous appearances on MSNBC (here's one where he claims America "hates black people), declared during an appearance on The View Friday that the U.S. Constitution is “trash” simply because it was written by white men.
Asked by host Ana Navarro if he believes the Constitution is a “living” or a “sacred” document, Mystal, who was on the show to discuss his new book “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution,” responded, “It’s certainly not sacred, let’s start there.”
“The Constitution is kind of trash - let’s just talk as adults for a second,” he continued.
Even Joy Behar seemed a bit astonished at the comment, asking Mystal to repeat himself for clarity.
“It’s kind of trash,” Mystal repeated. “It was written by slavers and colonists, and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn’t ask anybody who looked like me what they thought about the Constitution.”
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“This document was written without the consent of Black and Brown people in this country, and without the consent of women in this country,” he went on. “And I say, if that is the starting point, the very least we can do is ignore what those slavers and colonists and misogynists thought, and interpret the Constitution in a way that makes sense for our modern world.”
Mystal never did explain what exactly is written in the Constitution that makes it “trash,” other than the fact that it was written by white men.