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.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REPRESSION
http://www.law.com/sites/almstaff/2016/09/21/doj-civil-rights-chief-links-local-distrust-of-police-to-unconstitutional-tactics/?kw=DOJ+Civil+Rights+Chief+Links+Local+Distrust+of+Police+to+%E2%80%98Unconstitutional%E2%80%99+Tactics&cn=20160921&pt=AfternoonUpdate&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&slreturn=20160822174911
The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice should have long-since been a mighty, anti-terrorists-fighting organization, were it permitted to be such by over a century of racist, recalcitrant, even hostile Congresses, which must approve its budget and confirm its Director, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, as it also confirms the Attorney General.
Congress represents its constituents. These constituents are predominantly "white" in the craven, chromatic, dichotomy of American politics, meaning "privileged," whereas the "blacks" were "underprivileged" by race.
So, Congress would handicap the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division by the means aforesaid, and legislatively, to preserve citizenship privileges to whites exclusive of blacks.
In dong so, Congress was responding to the will of its voters, political parties, and funders to preserve and to promote white supremacy, by any means necessary, including by breaking its own laws, by violating its own Constitution, by letting white terrorists militias run amok lynching, bombing, burning, assassinating "uppity" blacks to intimidate and to frighten others from voting or attempting to rise out of their underprivileged status.
The federal courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court, have cooperated with Congresses, since the 1880s through the present, except for huge hiccups culminating in Brown v. Board in 1954, overturning "Jim Crow's" Plessy v. Ferguson.