Today I noticed a “factoid” on the bulletin board on my American history teacher’s wall which stated that Tennesse didn’t ratify the Amendment which allows blacks to vote until 1997. Please debunk this garbage.
Strange but evidently true:
I’m more speechless than anything else now.
Well I don’t know how old you are but I seem to remember it making the news in '97.
If you are speechless now, did you know that Kentucky didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment until 1976 and Mississippi in 1995!!
So everyone “gets it”-> 13th amendment = abolishment of slavery.
Tennessee’s “ratification” has no legal force, it’s only symbolic. Once an amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the states, it is part of the constitution, applicable to all the states. Whether the the other one-quarter of the states ratify it or not is immaterial.
Hell, the Vatican didn’t agree the earth revolved around the sun until 1992.
I don’t understand why you’re so shocked or upset by this. So Tennessee finally got around to engaging in a purely ceremonial vote that was of no real significance whatsoever. I doubt they passed a resolution confirming that water was wet, either.
What, they’ve got the earth revolving around the sun now? Dang, that’s a pisser! Now I’m going to have to get all of the calendars reprinted!