Have They Even Read the Constitution?, with Melissa Murray
UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham
The Meteor, Collective Media
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have a Supreme Court right now who believes that even thinking about race is a species of race discrimination. |
| 0:06.8 | And specifically, using race to remedy injuries done to racial minorities is racial discrimination against white people. |
| 0:16.1 | And that's just bonkers. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, y'all, here's some words that should sound familiar. |
| 0:27.6 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, |
| 0:34.1 | that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, |
| 0:38.3 | that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
| 0:43.3 | That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men |
| 0:48.3 | deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. |
| 0:53.3 | That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right |
| 1:01.0 | of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation |
| 1:08.0 | on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, |
| 1:13.2 | as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. |
| 1:19.7 | Just a little thing called the Declaration of Independence. |
| 1:23.6 | The right of the people to alter or abolish it when it becomes destructive to these ends. |
| 1:31.5 | And here are some words that may be less familiar to you from our good sisters article, |
| 1:37.1 | We are the Architects Now from Latasha Brown. She said, we have always called the men who wrote the Constitution the founders. |
| 1:47.3 | But before they founded anything, they were architects. |
| 1:51.9 | Someone had to draw the plans, decide what would hold the weight, decide what was non-negotiable. |
| 1:58.3 | The founding came at the end of that work, not the beginning. |
| 2:02.6 | And that is where we are. We will be the founders of a new nation. I believe it in my bones. |
| 2:09.6 | But before we found anything, we have to do the architect's work. And I don't want anyone |
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