Stack The Highest Court With Ideologues Then Do End Run Around Majority Rule, Genius…

You would think that white men who have had things their way since before the start of the repub­lic would have some tiny bit of shame and remorse; that even though the game has been fixed in their favor for cen­turies, they still bitch and com­plain because they have to cheat to fin­ish the race…
One would think that now that those at the very bot­tom, (let me say it Black peo­ple) are try­ing to claw their way up from off their stom­achs they would receive a bit of applause from white men their oppres­sors even if they refuse to extend a hand up.
The thing that real­ly piss­es these poor excus­es for men off is that despite all that they and their prog­en­i­tors did to black peo­ple, still we rise.
It real­ly makes them mad that despite the geno­cide they waged against us for hun­dreds of years instead of dis­ap­pear­ing we con­tin­ue to mul­ti­ply and prosper.
It must real­ly scare the hell out of them when they look at the data and real­ize they are becom­ing a minor­i­ty; they are shit-scared because of what they have done and con­tin­ue to do.
Conventional wis­dom would sug­gest they change from their wicked ways. But a poi­so­nous snake remains dan­ger­ous, even when its head is chopped from the body; the head con­tin­ues to be dangerous.

You may write me down in history
With your bit­ter, twist­ed lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassi­ness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my liv­ing room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the cer­tain­ty of tides,
Just like hopes spring­ing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and low­ered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soul­ful cries?

Does my haugh­ti­ness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sex­i­ness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meet­ing of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s root­ed in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leap­ing and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of ter­ror and fear
I rise
Into a day­break that’s won­drous­ly clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ances­tors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
(The great Maya Angelo)

Before Joe Biden was elect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy, he pledged that if a vacan­cy came up dur­ing his pres­i­den­cy, he would nom­i­nate a Black woman to the high­est court.
He won, and a vacan­cy has opened up. President Biden has restat­ed his com­mit­ment to nom­i­nate a Black woman to the high court.
The pres­i­dent has­n’t yet named any­one, but it has­n’t stopped the small-penis black woman-hat­ing lit­tle runts from bitch­ing that the yet unnamed Black woman is unqualified.
This means that the haters, most far less qual­i­fied than any of the judges being talked about, are say­ing being Black is dis­qual­i­fy­ing peri­od. They make no effort to chal­lenge the superb edu­ca­tion­al qual­i­fi­ca­tions of any of the judges whose names are being bandied about; they go straight for race.
This is noth­ing new In America, but one would have thought that these penile defi­cient, less-thans, would have some shame about the things they say about their superiors.
To har­bor such hatred of Black peo­ple as right-wing white men at all lev­els do, includ­ing US Senators, can only smack of one thing, ‘small penis syn­drome.

The idea that they would come out against some­one yet unnamed sole­ly based on race shows the des­per­a­tion and sense of dan­ger they antic­i­pate when the play­ing fields are a lit­tle less slant­ed in their favor.
They had no prob­lem when the most cor­rupt imbe­cil­ic per­son ever to occu­py the white house in our life­time shov­eled three con­tro­ver­sial white can­di­dates onto the court.
So many unan­swered ques­tions remain about why did Anthony Kennedy sud­den­ly resign and was replaced with Brett Kavanaugh. So many ques­tions remained about who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s stu­dent loans. So many ques­tions remain about why the FBI did not do a real inves­ti­ga­tion into Kavanaugh’s back­ground before he was placed onto the court.
Let’s not both­er to men­tion the unscrupu­lous and dis­hon­est process that placed Neil Gorsuch and Amey Coney-Barrett on the court.
Also, let us not both­er to men­tion that oth­er pres­i­dents have cam­paigned on who they intend­ed to place on the high­est court should they be elect­ed, includ­ing the for­mer guy.

The racist right has ini­ti­at­ed attempts to ban books, stop the teach­ing of American racism in schools, rad­i­cal­ly ger­ry­man­der con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts that water-down black vot­ing pow­er, anti-vot­ing laws, and a raft of oth­er unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic attacks against the majority.
They are dis­man­tling the sys­tem to main­tain white pow­er with the help and sup­port of Donald Trump’s three hacks on the supreme court.
Who could for­get how the Robert’s court for no appar­ent rea­son, decid­ed to dis­man­tle sec­tion (4B) of the 1965 vot­ing rights act under the guise that it worked well but was no longer needed.
The Federal judi­cia­ry has always been com­plic­it in the oppres­sion of African-Americans from the start; its col­lu­sion against peo­ple of col­or con­tin­ues today.
The right’s strat­e­gy has been to stack the fed­er­al judi­cia­ry, includ­ing the supreme court, with young right-wing ide­o­logues to set up minor­i­ty rule. Kudos to them it has been pure genius-but is a strat­e­gy that must be defeat­ed using every legal tool available.

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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.