Despicable And Shocking Supreme Court Decision!!

President Barack Hussein Obama

November 2008 saw this man, Barack Hussein Obama ele­vat­ed to the high­est polit­i­cal office in America, it appeared and for all intents and pur­pos­es should be a sweet and fit­ting cli­max after almost 4 hun­dred years of Slavery, Emancipation, Chain-Gangs,Jim Crow, Separate but Equal, the klu-klux-klan ‚Segregated drink­ing foun­tains, poll tax­es water-hoses, dogs, and bil­ly clubs to that moment. Many black peo­ple did not believe they would live to see a black President in their life-time, oth­ers felt it would nev­er hap­pen at all. I watched both elec­tion vic­to­ries with a bit­ter sweet taste in my mouth. Sweet in hon­or of his accom­plish­ments, bit­ter because of the pain which has been vis­it­ed on black peo­ple in this land called America, even as black peo­ple were here before that crim­i­nal Christopher Columbus brought his brand of dis­cov­ery to these shores.

The entire spec­ta­cle of slav­ery and the road Blacks were forced to trod, rests on the igno­rance of one race. A race which fun­da­men­tal­ly believed that it had a right to dom­i­nate anoth­er. As if the Genocide vis­it­ed on African peo­ple in this coun­try was not enough, I was vis­cer­al­ly aware that Obama’s Victories would mean defeat for mil­lions. Anyone who ever met a bul­ly under­stands the impor­tance of not anger­ing him/​her fur­ther, out of fear he/​she will vis­it even more pain on you. Such is the sit­u­a­tion in America, with the major­i­ty white pop­u­la­tion and their rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the con­gress and the Supreme Court.

THE BROWNING OF AMERICA.

Did any­one believe that white America was going to roll over and just let the brown peo­ple come in here and take over their coun­try? Ok well it may already be a lit­tle late , minori­ties already make up the major­i­ty. The Democratic Party has lit­er­al­ly snagged all the lit­tle minor­i­ty groups, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Gays, Lesbians, Women,Native Americans. So who is left out of this group? Oh yeah, I for­got.…. white men !! White men the Republican par­ty has posi­tioned itself not just as an impen­e­tra­ble wall of oppo­si­tion of all things Obama, it has estab­lished itself as the par­ty of intol­er­ance racial hatred and vot­er sup­pres­sion. It is well estab­lished that they know they can­not win nation­al elec­tions by mere­ly win­ning the white male vote. Yet what is their strat­e­gy? Voter sup­pres­sion, vot­er intim­i­da­tion, mass-depor­ta­tion, fence build­ing, yes fence build­ing, laugh­able, even as they cham­pi­on Ronald Reagan’s 1980’s speech to Mikhail Gorbachev ” mis­ter Gorbachev tear down this wall” in ref­er­ence to the Berlin wall which sep­a­rat­ed east and west Germany.

On August 6, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, call­ing the day ‘‘a tri­umph for free­dom as huge as any vic­to­ry that has ever been won on any bat­tlefield’’ (Johnson, ‘‘Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda’’). The law came sev­en months after Martin Luther King launched a Southern Christian Leadership Conference.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 bans dis­crim­i­na­tion in the vot­ing prac­tice.

Little did Lyndon Johnson know when he signed the land-mark leg­is­la­tion which gave all Americans a chance to par­tic­i­pate in the deci­sions of their own lives , that the Act would still be under attack in 2013, 48 years lat­er. Can we erad­i­cate all prob­lems on this plan­et? Maybe not. Are some of the prob­lems which bedev­il us avoidable?

You bet.

I just had this nov­el idea. What if there were no white peo­ple who thought that the way for them to suc­ceed is at the cost of oth­ers? What if they weren’t racists ? What if so many Caucasians did not believe that they are genet­i­cal­ly supe­ri­or to oth­er races?

At issue here is the sig­nif­i­cant impact one igno­rant notion has had on the his­to­ry of civilization.

In State leg­is­la­tures all over America Republican majori­ties have used 1950’s type tac­tics to pre­vent blacks and oth­ers they fig­ured would vote Democratic from vot­ing, this is not hearsay , they acknowl­edged that they were doing it to ensure a vic­to­ry by Mitt Romney. In the case of Shelby County Alabama against Holder the American Attorney General, the much esteemed Supreme Court stunned the world with a shame­ful deci­sion, effec­tive­ly over­turn­ing the land-mark leg­is­la­tion signed 48 years ago. In a an impas­sioned dis­sent Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg wrote that gut­ting the Civil Rights Act was tan­ta­mount to throw­ing out your umbrel­la in a rain­storm because you weren’t get­ting wet.

The deci­sion of the Court to gut sec­tion 5 of the Voting Right’s Act was a shock­ing dis­play of judi­cial activism which lit­er­al­ly threw out decades of set­tled law. It was a cal­lous and craven dis­play by the court in demon­strat­ing to the aver­age per­son that they do not count.

Those who thought the Citizens United Decision by this Court was as bad as this Roberts Court could get need to thing again. This is a rad­i­cal right wing court whose deci­sions will have earth shat­ter­ing impli­ca­tions for gen­er­a­tions to come.

It just demon­strat­ed that what 315 mil­lion peo­ple and their elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the house and sen­ate decid­ed, does not mat­ter, every­one is sub­ject to their dic­tates. So much for Democracy.

Every time you hear some­one from the Republican Party talk­ing about democ­ra­cy and the rule of law shout shame, they are hyp­ocrites. Where is the moral high ground America once claimed it had, even as it has been a flawed work in progress? Will American Political lead­ers con­tin­ue to lec­ture coun­tries like China and Russia about human rights when right here in America the high­est court and leg­is­la­tures all across the coun­try has demon­stra­bly decid­ed that the right to vote is not sacred?