Worse
still once the Lincoln assassination occurred persons of color slowly
but surely began to endure a second humiliating institutional reality
almost mirroring the slave system itself. Reconstitution Part II deals
with the reality of Jim Crow in the late 1800's and the federal
government relinquishing enforcement of the freedom that the union Civil
War victory brought. How persons of color had to endure such
indignities for so many years I will never know. Even Courts including
the Supreme Court of that time would not protect them.
Sound familiar as the immoral right wing so called "conservative" justices of our time call our society a "post racial" one.
It has given racist whites free rein to think of creative ways to deny
persons of color the vote and has eradicated that part of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 that oversaw those states, especially in the south,
which most egregiously flouted civil rights law.
Think
about it. What have both state and federal white Representatives,
Senators, and Presidents done by placing right wing extremist judges on
both lower courts and the Supreme Court? They have packed the courts with extremist right judges undermining the last vestige of hope to maintain
racial equality.
How
ironic that the very first bone of contention slavery may result 400
years later in a permanent civil schism in our nation in our time. Watch
these episodes narrated by the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. and then
RESIST the cancer of Trump and his presidency that permanently
threatens our body politic today. The price of Trump's corrupt
presidency is not only felt today but may survive for decades to come IF our nation survives at all. VOTE DEMOCRAT IN 2020 to make sure that it does.
