Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, AS AMENDED, IS THE ORGANIC, LIVING LAW OF AMERICA, WHOSE WILLFUL VIOLATION IS TREASON!
When the U.S. Constitution is defied and disrespected, as amended, a political reversion to antebellum slavery conditions--known as "original intent" prevails in government, the Constitution's trustees. After the Civil War, a historic "white-power" political reconciliation occurred between the Confederate-Democrats (South) and the Union-Republican (North) in 1877. The "Hayes-Tilden Compromise" resulted in the Congressionally-brokered election of Ohioan Rutherford B. Hayes, as President, although he had lost the popular vote. In exchange for this strategic political concession, all 3 branches of government abandoned the post-Civil War Constitutional Amendments-- 13th, 14th, and 15 Amendments--that were enacted and ratified to confer equal citizenship rights, privileges, and immunity upon the "freedmen" as was enjoyed by whites.
But, after this white ruling class "Compromise," the aspects of the former regime of black oppression, suppression and repression recurred in the North and South, except there was no formal, systemic slavery. Instead, segregation, economic peonage, i.e. "sharecropping," vigilante terrorism, especially lynching ensued. Because blacks were valuable personalty during slavery, lynching was extremely rare, but afterwards, when "free" their value as personalty being gone, they were lynched with impunity by white racist psychopaths. The lack of federal protection, either in or out of court, and the denial of rights, privileges and immunity, plus absence of economic opportunity caused blacks to flee the South in the millions to other sections of the country in search of better opportunities, even if not "equal."
This "Exodus" started in the late 1870's, and was led by Pap Singleton who believed that freedom could be found in Kansas, whence he led his votaries. Unfortunately, that freedom was more illusory than real, as the Kansas of James Montgomery, Jim Lane, Doc Jemison and John Brown was gone, having largely succumbed to the racism prevalent during that time.
But, in the 1930's a litigation strategy employed by Howard Law School's brilliant Dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, and later by his student, Thurgood Marshall, chipped away at this chronic national Constitutional abandonment of blacks, while each served as NAACP General Counsel.
This political and economic abandonment of blacks was also a breach of its national covenant, its Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. So, America being now a scofflaw of its founding document, became an outlaw nation. This covenant, that had been consecrated by blood, sweat, tears, suffering and death of war, had now been cravenly breached by sub rosa double-dealing, political wheedling and dealing, at the expense of black people. This sorry state of affairs continues to this day to a great extent. Added now to abandoned provisions in the Constitution is the War-Making and Debt Payment Provisions which it is Congress' unique duty to address.
Thus, undeclared wars, threatened government shut-downs, filibusters, sequestrations, judicial curtailment of voting rights and favored contractor privatization of the military and security apparatus of the nation have stealthily usurped government. Private interests run government today.