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The Supreme Court Of The United States Is The Judicial Arm of White Supremacy Inc
This is why we must fight to the death in order to preserve the hard won gains of the last fifty years.
For as long as I have been alive, the United States of America has been at war on several fronts.
These wars have been political, economic, sociological and cultural. Both internecine and external. And what’s extraordinary is that it has carried on from one generation to the next without any signs of abating.
And at the heart of these military, economic and cultural wars is the supreme court of the United States of America.
Far from being the objective arbiter, the supreme court has helped magnify the fault lines of American society more than any institution.
This was true two hundred years ago and it remains true today.
When you understand this salient point regarding the court, it becomes very easy to process why the judgement of Dred Scot v Sandford ruled in favour of the Southern plantocracy, when it ruled that Black folks regardless of where ever they were, had no rights to citizenship.
And it becomes easy to comprehend why the court ruled in favour of the South, when matters came to a head during the Plessy vs Ferguson case, when it declared that…