MARK SMITH/GUEST SPEAKER Ph.D. Candidate at Claremont Graduate University in the Department of Political Philosophy.  Social Justice Activist and Board Treasurer for Liberty Hill Truth, Faith, and Reconciliation: Can the United States Engage in a Social Contract With African Americans? The U.S. Constitution is the embodiment of the American social contract. That contract, however, was flawed from its beginning.  In no greater degree was this true than in the Constitution’s treatment of the enslaved Africans who, at the time of its…