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ST. LOUIS, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In March 1856, a black slave named Dred Scott was judged by the US Supreme Court to be less than a person. Today his great, great granddaughter, Lynne Jackson, is pointing to the case as a beacon of hope that full human rights will be extended to all citizens, regardless of their age, size or degree of dependency. The March 6, 1857 Dred Scott decision ruled that any person descended from black Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the U.S. Constitution. Blacks, the ruling...

Is California a Slaveholding State? Elitist judicial snob Stephen Reinhardt, of the Ninth District Court of Black-Robed Clowns, last week agreed with the assessment of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision. Reinhardt wrote, and I quote: "...the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms". Therefore, it follows that Reinhardt would categorically deny the Right of an American black to possess firearms. Taney wrote a similar opinion denying black Americans the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: "...[citizenship] would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as...