Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 15 February 2007 — Page 45

The Muncie Times • February 15, 2007 • Page 45

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continued from page 44 train is derailed, our destination is Dred Scott II. Reconstruction embraced the Fifteenth Amendment and witnessed a period of unprecedented political progress for Blacks. Like Barack Obama today, there were Sen. Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram R. Revels in the U.S. Senate. Like Lt. Gov. David Paterson today, there were P.B.S. Pinchback, A.K. Davis and R.H. Greaves. Terrorism arose with the political ascendancy of Blacks during Reconstruction. By 1900, Black politics was as dead as a doornail. Cong. George White of North Carolina turned out the Black light on Capitol Hill and, afterwards, established Whitesboro in Cape May County, New Jersey. In Congress, White introduced America’s first antilynching law. After fifty years. Blacks gave up the notion of making lynching a federal crime. Nonetheless, there was a change of venue for lynching from trees to buildings. Today, Blacks are routinely lynched in kangaroo courts. Like Indians on reservations. Blacks are denied legal representation. Aside from terrorism and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which was established on Christmas Eve in 1865 in a law office in Pulaski, TN, the U.S. Supreme Court played a prominent role,

with guidance from Dred Scott, in the dismantling of Reconstruction. It started with Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley’s authorship of the Tilden-Hayes Compromise. With this mandate, he announced that newly-freed Blacks had lost their status as “the special favorite of the laws.” This was akin to killing affirmative action today. Justice Clarence Thomas is anchoring the racist agenda of the Supreme Court and is praying that history repeats itself. For Blacks, it is too late to impeach President-select George W. Bush. His appointments to the Supreme Court bench coupled with the appointments made by his father, Bush 41, and Ronald Reagan, sealed our judicial fate. Dred Scott II is our final destination. By 1968, there had been a complete, governmentsponsored regime change in the Black colony. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 and Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. In between. Congress gave Cong. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. the leadership boot in 1967. The new Black regime is bent on turning back the hand of time while whites soothe us with double-talk. Double-talk also did in Indians who referred to it as the white man speaking with a “forked tongue.” The white man’s value

system is based on private property while Indians view property as communal. This value system was alien to whites and, therefore, Indians were unable to detect the motives of the white man. Blacks were spared the white man’s forked tongue approach until the 1960s. Beforehand, whites said what they meant and meant what they said. Segregation was a constant reminder. Gov. George Wallace said it best in declaring, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.” Blacks will taste the full flavor of this approach when Sen. Hillary Clinton is given the keys to the White House. In the meantime. Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are using it for maximum effect. For example, this deception has prompted leading Blacks to erect a wall between Bloomberg and Spitzer and the Sean Bell case. No demands are in the air. Blacks have learned zero from Indian history. In other words, we are unable to employ the tools of comparative analysis as a historical guide. “Those who fail to learn from the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.” See “The Trail of Tears.” Although time is moving forward, it does not follow that all people are in step with time and that

they are also moving forward. Selected leaders are engineering our travel. It is indisputable that our condition is getting worse as we move backwards. Time waits on no one including the people who gave the world the calendar. People must not only be able to determine the rate of travel but also the direction of travel. When it appeared in the 1960’s that Blacks had solved all barriers to travel, we lost our clock and our compass. The worst part of it is that we have not missed these essential tools. Any route will do when a people lack travel plans. Sen. Joseph Biden can forget about the White House but it is not because he might be a racist. Biden is unable to hold water. Once he gets his hands on intelligence reports about current Black leaders and their unclean hands, he has to spill the beans. Biden admitted that his use of the word “clean,” in praising Sen. Obama, did him in. History, should tell us that any “clean” Black leader has only a few days on this earth without sustaining early death or sustained punishment. The examples of clean Black leaders include Dr. King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Harry and Henriette Moore, Marcus Garvey and Paul Robeson. Living large is a characteristic that is associated

with house Negroes. Blacks must allow history to be their guide and to look for the common threads that bind our revered ancestors. It starts with a moral compass and “speaking truth to power.” Sean Bell et al. is the most recent example of a scripted struggle. This protracted struggle for effective legal representation requires any expression of support be sent to UAM Legal Defense Fund, c/o Alton H. Maddox, Jr., 16 Court Street, Ste. 1901, and Brooklyn, NY 11241. Freedom is not free and all struggles must be financed including the financing of our own oppression. Asante Sana the Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts is threatening to start a hearing on my disbarment in late February 2007 for my writings in this newspaper. The political establishment has a bill of sale on virtually every Black leader in New York. I am still atlarge. This violates New York’s fugitive slave law. The struggle must continue. We have no demands on the table for legal and political representation. Black faces in high places are enough. This is the trademark of a slave. Current Black leadership has squandered virtually all of the political capital of our revered ancestors. We are now reliving Dred Scott.