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Alabama state troopers, beat and shot an unarmed man,
26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting
rights
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 6, 2023, 1:36 pm
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AGelbert NOTE: The history, all the way to the
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/>present, that Heather Cox Richardson relates is 100% accurate,
but Biden is IMHO, just giving lip service to the injustice of
the events and plight of the victims, not really doing anything
to reverse the [glow=red,2,300]Republican[/glow] AND
Supreme([glow=red,2,300]ly Corrupt[/glow]) Court sponsored
[glow=red,2,300]racist tyranny[/glow]. Graphics, colored font
and large font size emphasis are by me.
March 5, 2023 By Heather Cox Richardson
[center]🕯️ Letters from an 🦅 American
🗽[/center]
President Joe Biden spoke this afternoon in Selma, Alabama, to
commemorate the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when law
enforcement officers tried to beat into silence Black Americans
marching for their right to have a say in the government under
which they lived. Standing at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which
had been named for a Confederate brigadier general, Grand Dragon
of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator who stood against
Black rights, Biden said: “On this bridge, blood was given to
help ‘redeem the soul of America.’”
The story of March 7, 1965, commemorated today in Selma, is the
story of Americans determined to bring to life the principle
articulated in the Declaration of Independence that a
government’s claim to authority comes from the consent of the
governed. It is also a story of how hard local authorities,
entrenched in power and backed by angry white voters, worked to
make the hurdles of that process insurmountable.
In the 1960s, despite the fact Black Americans outnumbered white
Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama,
the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, local Black
organizers launched a voter registration drive.
It was hard going. White Selma residents had no intention of
permitting their Black neighbors to have a say in their
government. Indeed, white southerners in general were taking a
stand against the equal right of Black Americans to vote. During
the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration drive in neighboring
Mississippi, [glow=red,2,300]Ku Klux Klan members [/glow]worked
with [glow=red,2,300]local law enforcement officers[/glow] to
murder three voting rights organizers and dispose of their
bodies.
To try to hold back the white supremacists, Congress passed the
1964 Civil Rights Act, designed in part to make it possible for
Black Americans to register to vote. In Selma, a 👿
[glow=red,2,300]judge[/glow] stopped voter registration meetings
by prohibiting public gatherings of more than two people.
To call attention to the crisis in her city, voting rights
activist [glow=teal,2,300]Amelia Boynton[/glow] traveled to
Birmingham to invite the [glow=teal,2,300]Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.[/glow], to the city. King had become a
household name after the 1963 March on Washington where he
delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech, and his presence would
bring national attention to Selma’s struggle.
King and other prominent Black leaders arrived in January 1965,
and for seven weeks, Black residents made a new push to register
to vote. 😈 [glow=red,2,300]County Sheriff James
Clark[/glow] arrested almost 2,000 of them on a variety of
charges, including contempt of court and parading without a
permit. A federal court ordered [glow=red,2,300]Clark[/glow] not
to interfere with orderly registration, so 😈 he forced
Black applicants to stand in line for hours before taking a
“literacy” test. Not a single person passed.
Then, on February 18, [glow=red,2,300]white police officers,
including local police, sheriff’s deputies, and Alabama state
troopers[/glow], beat and shot an unarmed man, 26-year-old
Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting rights at a
demonstration in his hometown of Marion, Alabama, about 25 miles
northwest of Selma. Jackson had run into a restaurant for
shelter along with his mother when the police started rioting,
but they chased him and shot him in the restaurant’s kitchen.
Jackson died eight days later, on February 26. Black leaders in
Selma decided to defuse the community’s anger by planning a long
march—54 miles—from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery to
draw attention to the murder and [glow=maroon,2,300]voter
suppression[/glow].
On March 7, 1965, the marchers set out. As they crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge, [glow=red,2,300]state troopers and other
law enforcement officers[/glow] met the [glow=teal,2,300]unarmed
marchers[/glow] with billy clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas.
[glow=red,2,300]They[/glow] fractured the skull of young
activist [glow=teal,2,300]John Lewis[/glow] and beat
[glow=teal,2,300]Amelia Boynton[/glow] unconscious. A newspaper
photograph of the 54-year-old Boynton, seemingly dead in the
arms of another marcher, illustrated the
[glow=red,2,300]depravity[/glow] of those determined to
[glow=red,2,300]stop[/glow] [glow=teal,2,300]Black
🗽voting[/glow].
Images of “Bloody Sunday” on the national news mesmerized the
nation, and supporters began to converge on Selma. King, who had
been in Atlanta when the marchers first set off, returned to the
fray.
Two days later, the marchers set out again. Once again, the
troopers and police met them at the end of the Edmund Pettus
Bridge, but this time, [glow=teal,2,300]King 🕊️
led the marchers in 🙏🏼 prayer[/glow] and then
took them back to Selma. That night, a [glow=red,2,300]white mob
beat to death[/glow] a [glow=teal,2,300]Unitarian Universalist
minister[/glow], James Reeb, who had come from Massachusetts to
join the marchers.
On March 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a nationally
televised joint session of Congress to ask for the passage of a
national voting rights act. “Their cause must be our cause too,”
he said. “[A]ll of us…must overcome the crippling legacy of
bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” Two days later,
he submitted to Congress proposed voting rights legislation.
The [glow=teal,2,300]marchers[/glow] were determined to complete
their trip to Montgomery, and when Alabama’s governor, 👿
[glow=red,2,300]George Wallace[/glow], refused to protect them,
President Johnson
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/>stepped in. When the [glow=teal,2,300]marchers[/glow] set off
for a third time on March 21, [glow=navy,2,300]1,900 members of
the nationalized Alabama National Guard, FBI agents, and federal
marshals protected [/glow] [glow=teal,2,300]them[/glow].
Covering about ten miles a day, they camped in the yards of
well-wishers until they arrived at the Alabama state capitol on
March 25. Their ranks had grown as they walked until they
numbered about 25,000 people.
On the steps of the capitol, speaking under a Confederate flag,
Dr. King said: “The end we seek is a society at peace with
itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that
will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That
will be the day of man as man.”
That night, [glow=teal,2,300]Viola Liuzzo[/glow], a 39-year-old
mother of five who had arrived from Michigan to help after
Bloody Sunday, was murdered by [glow=red,2,300]four Ku Klux Klan
members[/glow] who tailed her as she ferried demonstrators out
of the city.
On August 6, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 🗽
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/>Johnson recalled “the outrage of Selma” when he said, "This
right to vote is the basic right without which all others are
meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control
over their own destinies."
The Voting Rights Act authorized federal supervision of voter
registration in districts where African Americans were
historically underrepresented. Johnson promised that the
government would strike down “regulations, or laws, or tests to
deny the right to vote.” He called the right to vote “the most
powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down
injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men
because they are different from other men,” and pledged that “we
will not delay, or we will not hesitate, or we will not turn
aside until Americans of every race and color and origin in this
country have the same right as all others to share in the
process of democracy.”
But less than 50 years later, in 2013, the
[glow=red,2,300]Supreme Court[/glow] gutted the Voting Rights
Act. The [glow=maroon,2,300]Shelby County v. Holder
decision[/glow] opened the door, once again, for
[glow=red,2,300]voter suppression[/glow].
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it
[size=14pt]harder to vote. [/size]
In the wake of the 2020 election, in which voters handed control
of the government to Democrats, Republican-dominated
legislatures in at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting
access to voting. In July 2021, in the [glow=red,2,300]Brnovich
v. Democratic National Committee decision[/glow], the
[glow=red,2,300]Supreme 🐘😈 Court[/glow] ruled
that
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[glow=red,2,300]disproportionately
affected[/glow] [glow=greenl,2,300]minority voters[/glow] were
not unconstitutional so long as they were
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When the Democrats took power in 2021, they vowed to strengthen
voting rights. They immediately introduced the For the People
Act, which expanded voting rights, limited the influence of
money in politics, banned partisan gerrymandering, and created
new ethics rules for federal officeholders. Republicans in the
Senate blocked the measure with a filibuster.
[glow=blue,2,300]Democrats[/glow] then introduced the
[glow=teal,2,300]John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement
Act[/glow], which would have restored portions of the Voting
Rights Act, and the [glow=teal,2,300]Freedom to Vote Act[/glow],
a lighter version of the For the People Act. 🐘
[glow=red,2,300]Republicans[/glow] blocked both of those acts,
too.
And so, in 2023, the right to vote is
[glow=red,2,300]increasingly precarious[/glow].
As Biden told marchers today, “The right to vote—the right to
vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy
and liberty. With it, anything is possible. Without it—without
that right, nothing is possible. And this fundamental right
remains under [glow=red,2,300]🐘 assault[/glow].”
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... 😒 “A more perfect union” and “bringing the races
together” rhetoric.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 7, 2023, 1:28 pm
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AGelbert NOTE: The following was written in 2009 following
😒 President Obama's rhetoric filled speech which
included such phrases as, “A more perfect union” and “bringing
the races together”. It is EVEN MORE VALID TODAY (i.e. April 7,
2023) than it was then:
[center]Citing his book, The Price of Racial Reconciliation (The
Politics of Race and Ethnicity),[glow=blue,2,300] Professor
Walters[/glow] zeroes in on the critical issue of who has the
powerful last word:[/center]
The voice of the victim of racism has been devalued and the
voice of the perpetrators of racism is elevated because of the
power they hold over the interpretation and treatment of racial
events. This is the curious way in which whites, who by every
study I have seen experience racism far, far less than blacks,
end up having the dominant interpretation over events. They
control the power over the voice that interprets events and
control over the resources dedicated—or not dedicated—to resolve
them.
“A more perfect union” is not about “bringing the races
together” but about bringing equal access to economic and
political power to the races.
It is not about “individuals of every ethnic or racial group”
getting along better but about them getting by better.
It is not about the “inflamed tensions” of interracial group
dynamics but about human potential and hope turned into ashes by
group discrimination.
It is not about an “honest dialogue on race” but about an honest
diagnosis of America’s racial inequities.
It is not about making the ism disappear from “race” but about
removing racism from America’s institutions.
It is not about being “colorblind” but about being colorful.
It is about making America’s white-controlled
[glow=green,2,300]💵 hierarchy of access[/glow]
disappear.
It is about every person’s right to “life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.”
[glow=blue,2,300]Rev. William E. Alberts[/glow], Ph.D. is a
hospital chaplain and a diplomate in the College of Pastoral
Supervision and Psychotherapy. Both a Unitarian Universalist and
a United Methodist minister, he has written research reports,
essays and articles on racism, war, politics and religion. He
can be reached at william.alberts@bmc.org.
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The order went on: “The freedmen are advised to remain quietly
at their present homes and work for wages. They are infor
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 19, 2023, 5:44 pm
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June 18, 2023 By Heather Cox Richardson
[center]🕯️ Letters from an 🦅 American
🗽[/center]
SNIPPET:
The addition of the [glow=teal,2,300]Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution[/glow] in 1868 [glow=teal,2,300]remade[/glow] the
[glow=teal,2,300]United States[/glow]. But
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/>those[/glow] determined to preserve a world that
[glow=red,2,300]discriminated[/glow] between Americans according
to race, gender, ability, and so on, [glow=red,2,300]continued
to find workarounds[/glow]. 😠
Read more:
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"As the years progressed, I took for granted how much care
patients received without oversight by more senior
doctors."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 19, 2023, 7:04 pm
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Brian H. Williams, MD, is a trauma surgeon.
June 19, 2023 by [glow=blue,2,300]Brian H. Williams, MD[/glow]
[center]I Never Asked Why the Bodies Kept Coming[/center]
[move]— An excerpt from Brian Williams' forthcoming book on
[glow=maroon,2,300]racism[/glow],
[glow=red,2,300]violence[/glow], and how we 🌿
heal[/move]
SNIPPET:
A roiling history of exploitation of and experimentation on
Black people has fostered distrust of the medical establishment.
A brief survey of history includes J. Marion Sims, MD, past
president of the American Medical Association and often revered
as the "father of modern gynecology," who performed barbaric
vaginal operations on enslaved women. They were denied
anesthesia, physically restrained, and repeatedly mutilated.
Involuntary hysterectomies -- what Fannie Lou Hamer came to call
the "Mississippi appendectomy" -- were frequently performed on
Black women, often by medical students in training. These are
part of the legacy of "dehumanizing attempts to control Black
women's reproductive lives," as Dorothy E. Roberts describes in
[glow=red,2,300]Killing[/glow] the Black Body.
Full article: 👀 😞
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"Originalist" Constitutional Lawyers Weighing In
🔨 AGAINST 🦀 Trump!? 👀 😲 YES!!!
👍🍾😁
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 20, 2023, 1:21 pm
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🕯️ Letters from an 🦅 American 🗽
August 19, 2023 By Heather Cox Richardson
Various constitutional lawyers have been weighing in lately on
whether former president Donald Trump and others who
participated in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020
presidential election are disqualified from holding office under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The third section
of that amendment, ratified in 1868, reads:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or
elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office,
civil or military, under the United States, or under any State,
who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress,
or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any
State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any
State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by
a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
On August 14 an article forthcoming from the University of
Pennsylvania Law Review by William Baude of the University of
Chicago Law School and Michael S. Paulsen of the University of
St. Thomas School of Law became available as a preprint. It
argued that the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment is
still in effect (countering arguments that it applied only to
the Civil War era secessionists), that it is self-executing
(meaning the disqualification of certain people is automatic,
much as age limits or residency requirements are), and that
Trump and others who participated in trying to steal the 2020
presidential election are disqualified from holding office.
This paper was a big deal because while liberal thinkers have
been making this argument for a while now, Baude and Paulsen are
associated with the legal doctrine of originalism, an approach
to the law that insists the Constitution should be understood as
those who wrote its different parts understood them. That theory
gained traction on the right in the 1980s as a way to push back
against what its adherents called “judicial activism,” by which
they meant the Supreme Court’s use of the law, especially the
Fourteenth Amendment, to expand the rights of minorities and
women. One of the key institutions engaged in this pushback was
the [glow=maroon,2,300]💵🎩😈 Federalist
Society[/glow], and both Baude and Paulson are associated with
it.
Now the two have made a 126-page originalist case that the
Fourteenth Amendment prohibits Trump from running for president
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[glow=teal,2,300]Moderate Republicans[/glow]—not “Radical
Republicans,” by the way, which was a slur pinned on the Civil
War era party by 👿 [glow=red,2,300]southern-sympathizing
Democrats[/glow]—wrote the text of the Fourteenth Amendment at a
specific time for a specific reason that speaks directly to our
own era.
When [glow=red,2,300]👿 John Wilkes Booth[/glow]
assassinated [glow=teal,2,300]President Abraham Lincoln[/glow]
in April 1865, Congress was not in session. It had adjourned on
the morning of Lincoln’s second inauguration in early March,
after beavering away all night to finish up the session’s
business, and congressmen had begun their long journeys home
where they would stay until the new session began in December.
Lincoln’s death handed control of the country for more than
seven months to his vice president, Andrew Johnson, a former
Democrat who wanted to restore the nation to what it had been
before the war, minus the institution of slavery that he
believed concentrated wealth and power among a small elite.
[glow=red,2,300]😈 Johnson[/glow] refused to call
Congress back into session while he worked alone to restore the
prewar system, dominated by Democrats, as quickly as he could.
In May, Johnson announced that all former Confederates except
for high-ranking political or military officers or anyone worth
more than $20,000 (about $400,000 today) would be given amnesty
as soon as they took an oath of loyalty to the United States. He
pardoned all but about 1,500 of that elite excluded group by
December 1865.
Johnson required that southern states change their state
constitutions by ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting
enslavement except as punishment for a crime, nullifying the
ordinances of secession, and repudiating the Confederate war
debts. Delegates did so, grudgingly and with some wiggling, and
then went on to pass the Black Codes, laws designed to keep
Black Americans subservient to their white neighbors.
Under those new state constitutions and racist legal codes,
southern states elected new senators and representatives to
Congress. Voters put back into national office the very same men
who had driven the rebellion, including its vice president,
Alexander Stephens, whom the Georgia legislature reelected to
the U.S. Senate. When Congress reconvened in December 1865,
Johnson cheerily told them he had reconstructed the country
without their help.
It looked as if the country was right back to where it had been
in 1860, with legal slavery ended but a racial system that
looked much like it already reestablished in the South. And
since the 1870 census would count Black Americans as whole
people for the first time, southern congressmen would have more
power than before.
But when the southern state delegations elected under Johnson’s
plan arrived in Washington, D.C., to be seated, Republicans
turned them away. They rejected the idea that after four years,
600,000 casualties, and more than $5 billion, the country should
be ruled by men like Stephens, who insisted that American
democracy meant that power resided not in the federal government
but in the states, where a small, wealthy minority could
insulate itself from the majority rule that controlled Congress.
In state government a minority could control who could vote and
the information to which those voters had access, removing
concerns that voters would challenge their wealth or power.
White southerners embraced the idea of “popular sovereignty” and
“states’ rights,” arguing that any attempt of Congress to
enforce majority rule was an attack on democracy.
But President LIncoln and the Republicans reestablished the idea
of majority rule, using the federal government to enforce the
principle of human equality outlined by the Declaration of
Independence.
And that’s where the Fourteenth Amendment came in. When Johnson
tried to restore the former Confederates to power after the
Civil War, Americans wrote into the Constitution that anyone
born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen, and then they
established that states must treat all citizens equally before
the law, thus taking away the legal basis for the Black Codes
and giving the federal government power to enforce equality in
the states. They also made sure that anyone who rebels against
the federal government can’t make or enforce the nation’s laws.
Republicans in the 1860s would certainly have believed the
Fourteenth Amendment covered Trump’s attempt to overturn the
results of a presidential election. More, though, that amendment
sought to establish, once and for all, the supremacy of the
federal government over those who wanted to solidify their power
in the states, where they could impose the will of a minority.
That concept speaks directly to today’s Republicans.
In The Atlantic today, two prominent legal scholars from
opposite sides of the political spectrum, former federal judge
J. Michael Luttig and emeritus professor of constitutional law
at Harvard Law School Laurence H. Tribe, applauded the
Baude-Paulsen article and suggested that the American people
should support the “faithful application and enforcement of
their Constitution.” 🦅
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Environmental Injustice: Dispatches From a Black Trauma Surgeon
on Health Inequity
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Date: September 12, 2024, 3:44 pm
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[center]Wild, Incisive, Fearless.[/center]
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September 11, 2024 - by Dr. Brian H. Williams
[move]Dr. Brian H. Williams is an Air Force Academy graduate, a
Harvard-trained surgeon, a former congressional health policy
advisor, and a nationally recognized leader at the intersection
of public policy and structural racism, gun violence, and health
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[center]Environmental[glow=red,2,300] Injustice[/glow]:
Dispatches From a Black Trauma Surgeon on Health
[glow=red,2,300]Inequity[/glow][/center]
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“Open up and say ahhh.” I coughed as the doctor gagged me with a
popsicle stick and gasped when he placed an ice cube
masquerading as a stethoscope to my back. “Cold, huh? Sorry
about that.” My mother hovered, not saying a word as the man
with the soothing voice in the long white coat poked and prodded
while asking me about sports and school. “Well, we’re done,” the
doctor said, smiling again. He gave my mother instructions about
when to return to the hospital, said something to her about
smoking, wished me luck in my upcoming game, and walked out.
Squirming into my shirt, I asked: “Are there any Black doctors?”
A decade before Bill Cosby reigned as America’s favorite TV dad,
Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable — and decades before it became known
that he was drugging and sexually assaulting women — my mother
smiled like any parent deflecting an uncomfortable truth. I
couldn’t articulate it yet, but I felt it just the same. To me
the smiling man in the long white coat, with the fancy degrees
and plaques and awards broadcasting greatness from his office
walls, was a god. And like the Eurocentric religious ideals
force-fed to me in Sunday school, his profession of medicine did
not seem like somewhere I belonged.
From that early age, I knew an unspoken truth: No matter how
smart, articulate, or well-behaved I would become, there were
always places Black boys would not be welcome.
Black men in medicine represent less than 3% of doctors, and I
know future Black men attempting to cross the threshold are
depending on Black doctors like me. Patients have told me to get
their “real” doctor, leave the room, remove their tray of
half-eaten food, or empty the trash bin. Some have ignored me
and others have spat at me. Some have prayed for me and others
have wished me dead. I have been called a racist and a healer, a
n-i-g-g-e-r and a sellout, a hypocrite and a hero. No matter our
social status, from gang members to doctors, Black men still
serve as a mirror for people’s fears. A screen on which to
project one’s anxiety — and disgust. An endangered species
navigating a world both hostile to and dependent upon our
existence.
Read more: 😞
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