Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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When voter suppression joined hands in holy matrimony with jury suppression

Angela Allen-Bell exposes the framers’ commitment to white supremacy and Black inferiority with voting rights obscured in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Pattern of practice: Centuries of racist oppression culminating in mass incarceration

After winning their freedom in the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, Blacks were in many cases and places denied basic human, civil and political rights, literally forcing New Afrikans back into slavery by denying them a right to life. Over the years the government declared and waged war on the New Afrikan communities - war on unemployed "vagrants,' war on crime, war on drugs, war on gangs - culminating in mass incarceration.