"It’s the background radiation left over from the Big Bang of our nation’s Founding. At which time all men were aspirationally proclaimed “equal,” but those with dark skin were notably excluded from that promise."
Cute story, load of crap.
All landed gentry men of British, Germanic, and Scandinavian extraction who were Protestents were considered 'equal' and initially the Right to Vote was to be granted only to them, a new Aristocracy.
Then the Founders reluctantly expanded it to all land owning men of such background because should the American Revolution Chapter II come to be should they feel slighted by the exclusion, the Founding Fathers wouldn't be able to hide as easily as the British Royalty & Aristocracy could safely esconced overseas.
THAT's the reason for the Electoral College, since in America, even wealthy large landowners could have been a mere generation or two from their penal colony criminal class roots.
As a compromise to entice States with smaller populations to sign on was part of it, but secondary to the worry that the ignorant and intellectually compromised masses of lower breeding could very well be lured into voting for a populist rampaging lunatic and thus it would provide a means to void those votes in favor of someone more suitable and civilized.
A few years after, Catholics were also allowed the vote, and a few years after that so were Jews.
Then other races and ethnicities and, of course, womem,
