A North Carolina trial judge recently resentenced three death-row inmates to life without parole under the state’s Racial Justice Act, which allows inmates to have their sentences reduced if it can be shown they were tainted by racial bias. In the trials of two blacks and one Lumbee Indian, the judge found “powerful evidence”of such bias.
No!!...Not in the Crown Jewel of 'The New South' Republi-Crat state...nahhh
Go figure, huh? No matter how this society feels it's 'done
all it can do" for the descendants of the African people that were brought
here by a 'code' of ethics so reprehensible it boggles my mind. It is (real
time racism) still very much alive and doing what it does. While an almost
pathological hatred and disavowal of African Americans has existed for
centuries, the cause/effects, now...to a much larger degree, and within a
multi-racial environment, is now, strictly a class/economic division set in
motion by The Market. Leadership figures are bought and sold/hired and fired
like so much corporate raider 'turn-over' specialists set in motion by the
takeover 'corporation"...a/k/a Congress/White House to squeeze profits out
of rocks.
The quest for 'money/wealth/status/identity' has jeopardized
the contemporary African American to an even worse degree that it has before
say 1990, simply by the context of esoteric/contemporary references to wealth
and class that whites use as indication of just whom they're dealing with...Hip
Hop, for example, was an emerging 'voice' to an oppressed epole(s)...the idiom
has been c-opted by $$$$. Just ask Russell Simmons what time it is'...The
ramifications were nuts...LA hates NYC (thats' where "Rap" music
originated...actually a couple of blocks from where I grew up!)..."Gangsta
Rap" emerged out of the vapid
insolence of LA...Thug Life became a WAY of life...and the whole became a
circus that the Racist American could use as even more fuel to feed his hate.
Until the US in whole/part...what have you, discusses
openly, the horrors that were the lives of the enslaved,
bought-and-sold-like-baling wire-Africans...as well as the period between
1867-1940's ...the Jim Crow era, with its extrajudicial justice called lynching,
and it's targeting of mostly (90%) African-American folk with that degrading
and horrific existence of hiding from the white man...and his lynching tree.
Those truths are the issues that must be personally & collectively
discussed and dealt with. They must be addressed in order for this country to
heal. There are those folks who would love nothing better but to have all of us
croak so they might have the world...as their private, elite 'oyster'...IMHO?? Fuck
'em.
