Behind The Toxic Racism In America Hides White Women In Plain Sight…

Their fin­ger­prints are all over every act of bar­barism that has ever been vis­it­ed on inno­cent black Americans. From induc­ing enslaved men to engage in sex­u­al encoun­ters with them and when caught cry­ing rape.
From cry­ing rape when enslaved men denied them sex­u­al favors.
From the Tulsa Riots to Rosewood, From the Emit Till mur­der to Susan Smith and every case in between, white wom­en’s fin­ger­prints have been all over the mur­der of inno­cent black peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly black men.
Today, they would rather pay their last pen­ny to help save the life of a stray dog than show a sin­gle iota of empa­thy to a mur­dered black child.
The lack of empa­thy is noth­ing new; white women have always embarked on the sys­tem­at­ic killing of black chil­dren whom they chose to beat to death for the most minor child infrac­tion dur­ing slavery.

One of the issues that have been pushed to the back­burn­er as COVID ‑19 dom­i­nates the news is the issue of racism and the part white women play in it.
It can­not be lost on any­one that since Donald Trump ascend­ed to the Presidency, he has made no bones about being the most open­ly white nation­al­ist racists to occu­py the White House in our life­time.
We all knew that even among the best of them, if we can appro­pri­ate­ly use the term [best]to describe degen­er­a­cy, Republican or Democrat, at best, they were all rabid racists.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION DECLARATION INTO LAW.

Yet still, here was Republican Abraham Lincoln, in a let­ter to pub­lish­er Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune;
I would save the Union. I would save it the short­est way under the Constitution. The soon­er the nation­al author­i­ty can be restored; the near­er the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slav­ery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slav­ery, I do not agree with them. My para­mount object in this strug­gle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slav­ery. If I could save the Union with­out free­ing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by free­ing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by free­ing some and leav­ing oth­ers alone I would also do that. What I do about slav­ery, and the col­ored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I for­bear, I for­bear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less when­ev­er I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more when­ev­er I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to cor­rect errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED BOTH THE CIVIL AND VOTING RIGHTS ACTS INTO LAW.

Yet still, here was Democrat Lyndon Johnson: A crass & boor­ish spec­i­men. Some his­to­ri­ans believe Johnson to date has been the worst of the lot of them and may, to date, be the most revolt­ing ever to attain the pres­i­den­cy.
The National Post​.com argues Lyndon Johnson has been the most vul­gar pres­i­dent to date, As the world awaits the next nasty utter­ance from Donald Trump, one can only mar­vel at how his­to­ry itself has end­ed up in (lan­guage alert!) — a “shit­hole.” Amid the chron­ic shock and hor­ri­fied reac­tions, peo­ple have become blind to the fact that he is not (yet) the most dis­gust­ing U.S. pres­i­dent in liv­ing mem­o­ry. That title actu­al­ly belongs to a Texan Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, a howl­ing, flat­u­lent tor­men­tor of women whose cussing and racism remain breath­tak­ing today. And if you’re offend­ed by Trump’s lev­el of vul­gar­i­ty, you real­ly — real­ly — don’t want to read any fur­ther.
A record­ed 1964 tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion with Jack Valenti touched on Johnson’s elec­toral chances in Texas for an upcom­ing pres­i­den­tial race: Said Johnson, “I think I can take every Mexican in the state and every n — -r in the state.” “All they (the vot­ers) ever hear at elec­tion time is n — -r, n — -r, n — -r!”. Speaking of appoint a black jurist to the court Johnson went on, “When I appoint a n — -r to the bench, I want every­one to know he’s a n — -r.”

So we have estab­lished that racism is as much a social con­struct in America, as accept­ed & prac­ticed, as American as apple pie.
One of the false beliefs relat­ed to race is the idea that the face of racism in America is that of white males, and this could not be fur­ther from the truth. As I have writ­ten sev­er­al times over the last cou­ple of years, in par­tic­u­lar when the issue of Donald Trump’s racism comes up for dis­cus­sion, white women have used the safe­ty of hid­ing behind their white men, even as they per­pet­u­ate and indulge in the most vicious forms of racism.
In the three years that Donald Trump has been President of the United States, a real phe­nom­e­non has tak­en shape. One that many peo­ple have found cute names for. Some peo­ple have even found this phe­nom­e­non amus­ing; unfor­tu­nate­ly, because the result can result in death, it is absolute­ly no laugh­ing mat­ter.
It is a mat­ter of white women call­ing the police on black peo­ple for engag­ing in the most mun­dane activ­i­ties that we all engage in, in our dai­ly lives.

There seems to be an invig­o­rat­ed awak­en­ing in white women and an ener­gized spir­it to engage in bla­tant racism since Donald Trump took office. However, it can­not all be laid at Trump’s feet, no mat­ter how repug­nant he is.
We have all seen the videos of white women call­ing the police to arrest black peo­ple bar­be­cu­ing in the park. Studying in a com­mon area in a col­lege dorm. Sitting in a Starbucks cof­fee shop. In Cleveland, Huntington Bank apol­o­gized after an employ­ee called the police on a black man try­ing to cash his pay­check. Shopping at a CVS and using a coupon. Alison Ettel was filmed as she called the police on an 8‑year-old black girl sell­ing water with­out a per­mit. A white neigh­bor called the police on 12-year-old Reggie Fields as he was cut­ting grass in his neigh­bor­hood as part of his sum­mer busi­ness. Last sum­mer, Jaequan Faulkner, 13, opened a hot dog stand hop­ing to raise mon­ey to buy clothes. It was report­ed for not hav­ing a per­mit. In October, a Brooklyn woman was cap­tured in a viral video appear­ing to call 911 and claim­ing a young boy had groped her inside a deli. The footage shows young chil­dren cry­ing as she’s mak­ing the alleged call to the police, who nev­er show up. The woman was lat­er con­front­ed with sur­veil­lance footage con­firm­ing the boy nev­er groped her. On social media, users dubbed her “Cornerstore Caroline.“
It goes on and on, play­ing golf, stay­ing at an AirB&B, nap­ping on a couch, vis­it­ing the pool, run­ning a busi­ness, mak­ing a white woman sus­pi­cious, mak­ing a white woman uneasy, I could go on all day.

For some peo­ple who have nev­er lived in black skin in America, these things may seem pret­ty run-of-the-mill. There is noth­ing run of the mill about these racist calls to the police, and they are designed to use the police to kill the object of their hatred.
The bru­tal­i­ty and vio­lent ten­den­cies of police who kill black peo­ple are old­er than apple pie, com­ing from as far back as slav­ery.
No, there was noth­ing called police offi­cers dur­ing slav­ery; back then, they were over­seers on the plan­ta­tions and, even­tu­al­ly, slave patrols who ran down enslaved peo­ple flee­ing bondage in search of free­dom.
The sheer bar­barism of that era, in which slave patrols would have dogs lit­er­al­ly eat the flesh from run-away peo­ple, beat and muti­late them, is still evi­dent today.
Police still use dogs to muti­late black peo­ple who are already sub­dued, beat, and ulti­mate­ly mur­der them, even though they are unarmed and offer no resis­tance.
On the con­trary, white ser­i­al killers are treat­ed with the soft­est touch­es. They are gen­er­al­ly well pro­tect­ed, includ­ing being tak­en to get fast food after they mas­sa­cred mul­ti­ple inno­cent people.

The web­site (face2​faceafrica​.com) suc­cinct­ly writes, “What escapes many peo­ple is that the whim­si­cal killing of enslaved Blacks in the U.S. dur­ing slav­ery, and even after by white folks with­out puni­tive con­se­quence is based on laws passed by white politi­cians, who hap­pened to be plan­ta­tion own­ers as well. One such devi­ous law is the Casual Killing Act of 1669 which declared it legal to kill a slave while cor­rect­ing because mal­ice could not be pre­sumed. The “casu­al killing of slaves” says that if a slave dies while resist­ing his mas­ter, the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”
Does the penul­ti­mate & last lines ring a bell? Let us look at those two lines again, [if a slave dies while resist­ing his mas­ter, the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”]
Now, do you see it?
When you see a bunch of mur­der­ous cops beat­ing the hell out of a black per­son while six of them are sit­ting on him/​her, yelling “stop resist­ing” over and over again, the idea is to jus­ti­fy killing that per­son.
As long as they yell out, stop “resist­ing,” no mat­ter what crimes they com­mit there­after will be deemed jus­ti­fied when they inves­ti­gate them­selves.
These con­di­tions are not new; they were cod­i­fied into laws and form part of the fab­ric of insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism built into the American body politic.
The new real­i­ty is this, “If a black per­son dies while resist­ing his new mas­ter [the police], the act will not be pre­sumed to have occurred with “prepensed mal­ice.”]
Now google the name Eric Garner. Walter Scott. Laquan McDonald. Michael Brown. Philando Castille. John Crawford. Sandra Bland. Miles Hall. Alton Sterling. Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. .….….….

(Killedbypolice​.net) reports that though there are proven meth­ods that have result­ed in few­er deaths at the hands of police, only a few police depart­ments have adopt­ed them.
One of the strate­gies that I believe would be of much help is the duty to inter­vene if anoth­er offi­cer uses exces­sive force.
The fact that they have not adopt­ed these mea­sures and, in par­tic­u­lar, hold­ing oth­er cops account­able sends a strong mes­sage that there is no inten­tion to stop the killer dogs from mur­der­ing inno­cent peo­ple of col­or.
You pay their salaries through your tax­es; they kill you and serve their own racist interests.

But the laws passed to make it no big deal to kill black peo­ple were actu­al­ly passed to pro­tect white women who would mali­cious­ly beat and kill black chil­dren.
The cry­ing that we now see when white women are caught in bla­tant acts of racism or when they ille­gal­ly offend a black per­son is noth­ing new. White women have always been at the cen­ter of the bar­barism unleashed against inno­cent black cit­i­zens.
Whether it be the hor­rif­ic mur­der of Emmitt Till, the Tulsa Riots, to Susan Smith, who killed her chil­dren and blamed a black man, engag­ing in hor­rif­ic acts of racism and revert­ing to the lit­tle damsel in dis­tress has been their modus Operandi as long as this igno­ble sys­tem has exist­ed.
Sure the men pro­vide the mus­cle but behind the mus­cle are the devi­ous, dev­il­ish brains that have fer­til­ized racism and allowed it to con­tin­ue to grow.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.