Posted on 07/16/2013 10:47:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the vines and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar tree
Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh”
“Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol / Billie Holiday
*I was quite dismayed by the George Zimmerman acquittal.
It’s almost as if nothing has changed in the 5 years since Obama was elected, in the last 50 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, or even over the last 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump compared Trayvon to a couple of civil rights martyrs, Medgar Evers and Emmett Till. But he might have been better served highlighting the parallels between his client’s case and that of Dred Scott.
Scott was an escaped slave who had settled in a free state before being captured and re-enslaved by a bounty hunter ironically named John Sanford. Scott subsequently sued his new master in state and then federal court, losing both times on technical interpretations of the law, despite the fairly obvious fact that he had established his residency in Illinois, a state which prohibited slavery.
With the help of abolitionists, he took the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, reasonably expecting to prevail on appeal. Meanwhile, the publicity stirred up by the controversy divided the country to the point that President Buchanan got involved, pressuring the court to affirm the earlier rulings.
Sure enough, on March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Taney handed down his landmark decision, relying on the Constitution itself to declare blacks “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations,” going so far as saying African-Americans were “so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
And exactly how did America get out from under such a patently racist interpretation of the supposedly sacrosanct Constitution? On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln singlehandedly ended slavery by executive decree via the Emancipation Proclamation. He didn’t ask Congress to pass a law or wait for permission from a bi-partisan team of rivals, but he simply outlawed the evil institution and conferred full-citizenship upon former slaves.
Today, President Obama has no more loyal a constituency than African-Americans. The black community‘s psychic pain as a consequence of the Zimmerman verdict is palpable because the facts leading up to the avoidable tragedy are so easy to establish.
17 year-old Trayvon Martin was talking on the phone while walking home from a convenience store after purchasing Skittles and iced tea when he suddenly found himself being stalked by a scary stranger who had profiled him as a perpetrator. The whole world, by now, has heard the phone call on which Zimmerman was clearly ordered by the police operator to stay in his car.
Yet, he ignored those instructions, and a couple of minutes later, Trayvon lay dead from a bullet to the heart. His inconsolable parents patiently waited for the criminal justice system to work, but a jury let Zimmerman off scot-free, despite overwhelming evidence that he was the aggressor.
Is there really any doubt about who had to defend himself? Or that the outcome would’ve been the opposite if a black man with a gun had tailed and then killed a white kid under similar circumstances? Thanks to the proliferation of “Stand Your Ground” laws, America is in danger of turning back into a country where no black person has any civil rights which any armed white racist vigilante feels bound to respect.
Therefore, my fervent prayer is that President Obama will soon summon up the gumption to rise to the occasion and use his executive powers to rectify the situation, including the miscarriage of justice in the Zimmerman case. Otherwise, a sense of being relegated to second-class citizenship might deleteriously affect the hearts and minds of an impressionable generation of black youngsters in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
This is your moment, Mr. President. And the world is watching.
Yeah I do.
Not only do boys commit murder, TM was a “boy” in name only. He had a good 3-4 inches in height on Zimmerman, had been a football player, and was generally athletic.
Dredd Scott was emancipated 3 months after the ruling by the USSC.
Will this, then, be the prelude to our next Civil War?
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Roe v Wade was the 20th c Dred Scott.
It looks that they are trying to ‘change’ history so that they are justified in what ever they are about to do.
Rough times ahead, 2ndDivisionVet, rough times ahead.
And they’ve already telegraphed what they want... They want to remake the U.S. into a nation just like Zimbabwe and South Africa.
If the actions of the Panthers, Holder, and a large contingent of inner city youth is any indication, one might be forgiven if they believed that assessment. There's a definite social cancer in the black community these days and it reflects poorly on African Americans in general.
I know there are a lot of self-loathing white people, but are they truly suicidal?
Good question, the answer as far as I can tell is No, they aren’t suicidal. But they also appear more than willing to throw everyone else to the wolves to save themselves from what the see and fear coming in the future.
Also I agree with you about the percentages of Racial makeup between the U.S. and Zimbabwe and South Africa. Maybe I didn’t say it clearly but what I meant is that they, (The race-baiters / Current Democrat Party / MSM, etc.) seem to be pushing for that kind of state where the wicked White Man is punished and or eliminated so that the Nobel Black man can assume his rightful place.
And if that sounds racist well I guess that it is only because I am just repeating their own words, you can listen to J.J. and Sharpton and well as many other wanna be’s in that group. They say it often enough in one form or another.
... if TM had been confronted with a BLACK handgun instead of a WHITE handgun, there would have been:
no “civil rights” issue-
no “stalking”-
no “vigilantism”-
no “lynching”-
no “hate crime”-
no “ashamed to be an American”-
Sadly, TM would have been just another ‘murder’ statistic added to the heap of young dead Black men killed by a Black gun.
But, put that SAME GUN in the hands of a NON-Black American and it magically turns into a racist weapon, used to “hunt” Black Americans with the sole purpose of trampling on their “civil rights” with the Black ‘criminal’ becoming the ‘victim’; and because the gun owner is NOT Black, he/she has NO civil rights, NO “right to life” and is never justified in “bringing” a White gun to a Black crime-
Just my 2cents...
“I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. And I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. … And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” – Abraham Lincoln in his fourth debate with Stephen Douglas in the campaign for the United States Senate on September 18th of 1858.
and this:
“Negro equality! Fudge! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagogue-ism as this?” – Abraham Lincoln in notes for speeches in September of 1859.
lloyd sham williams is wrong on o so many levels...
pure bullcrap
Here is a complete and exhaustive list of all of the true statements in Williams’ piece:
1)
Black culture here is mostly an artificial construct.
Good points! And I like the Lincoln quotes. With that said, Artificial Construct or not... It’s a real one and we the living must live with it’s existence and it’s consequences.
Typical lefty using the compound lie. They have to go there, because they’re losing blacks. The Democrats are fracturing over immigration and SSM. The fences on the plantation are being trampled down.
Thanks for listing the lies. There were really too many to deal with. I covered the truth in the article, which was easy. There was no truth there.
Time to tell those who are protesting to wake up, smell the coffee, and GROW UP for a change!
From the author who wrote...”It’s almost as if nothing has changed in the 5 years since Obama was elected.”...
Oh how wrong you are Mr. Author, things have gotten far worse than ever before in this countrys history. Odumbo has set America back to a period long since forgotten.
The truely unfortunate part of that is the American people let him do it. Odumbo told us before his first term what his intensions were for the country and obvioulsy nobody listened. Its time to reflect on the truth as we are in deep doodo now.
Another point about Dredd Scott. Taney was a racist idiot who took a simple matter of interstate commerce and injected all sorts of racist/white-supremacist language into it that continues to haunt us to this day and ends up being the “go-to” for Liberals rather than the actual legal aspects that were involved.
Slavery was legal under the US Constitution. Yes, it sucks, but it also happens to be true. Slavery ONLY became illegal with the ratification of the 13th Amendment (NOT the Emancipation Proclamation).
The Constitution grants the Federal Government the power to regulate interstate commerce. Dredd Scott was, legally, property. The Fugitive Slave Act was, at the time, a completely Constitutional law that required slaves (property) to be returned to their masters (rightful owners) if they crossed state lines. Without there being a 13th Amendment (yet), and with the Constitution permitting slavery (3/5ths Rule) it was an open/shut case. Taney didn’t need to go there as was just being an a**hole with a lot of the language he injected into his reasoning.
Now, here’s the funny thing. The writer, and most other Libs, tend to fall back on the argument that since Illinois was a “Free State” in which Dredd Scott had taken up residence, Illinois law trumped Federal Law.
So, in essence, the ignorant moron who wrote this piece is actually basing his whole argument in STATES RIGHTS and STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
Without actually understanding what he’s doing, I’m sure.
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