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.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
POLICE ARE MERELY PAWNS
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The police are merely first-row pawns in the 50 states' faux judicial systems of racial repression that are piloted by prosecutors, that date back to the end of Reconstruction after the Civil War. The real power comes from twin engines: legislation and from judicial decisions. These powerful persons are elected or appointed by the ruling moneyed interests. Their work product is , pretextually, rooted in Constitutional law, but, in fact, it is grounded in the prurient paradigm of 'white' supreme power, whose pernicious premises predate the establishment of the nation. These premises are premised upon the total control of all that matters and of everyone that is dubbed 'American.'
This wickedly evil system was ingeniously designed to separate three easily identifiable groups, then seeking to overthrow colonial rule: Africans, poor whites, and indigenes in the colonial era. This design required practicable differentiation in the treatment of these three groups to assure colonial rule. The indigenes were forced out or killed off and their lands were redistributed to the poor whites to settle on and to till. The Africans' status was changed from indentured servants--which was also that of the poor whites, mainly--to slaves for life gradually in the 17th century by judicial decisions and legislation.
To justify this disparity, theories of racial inferiority were spawned and implemented culturally to salve Christian consciences, and to reassure troubled republicans, that this modus was morally right and remarkably profitable to participating whites; and fatal for those whites who rejected the booty and bounty of the needed balkanization that it provided.
Africans naturally and furiously resisted being drafted as the dray-beasts of American society. This resistance entailed revolts, running away, and buying their freedom. It also entailed their acquiring reading and writing skills, trades, and other forms of knowledge, the better to resist thrall domination.
The colonial rulers who later became the national rulers passed more laws to thwart this threat. They passed two fugitive slave acts in: 1793 and in 1850; they handed down the DRED SCOTT DECISION of 1857. But, nothing worked, so the Civil War came. Then later Reconstruction came.
And the slavecatchers and slave patrols of old became today's police under the repatched paradigm of white supremacy, and its assorted appurtenances, that is still prevalent today in every pore of national culture