Black people are being wholesale slaughtered every day on the streets of America. It has become so common to see grieving families crying out for justice; demanding investigations into what we have engraved into our collective racial memory and therefore know as the continuing extermination of us as a people from this nation, and ultimately this earth.
It pains me every time I see our heartbroken families protesting and demanding that our murders be arrested and jailed for what they as an entire system and institution are all actively working towards. It bears testament to our remaining ignorance about our enemy and our conditions in this land, when we beg and expect the courts throughout America to punish anyone who kills us.
A lot of us who have a more than average awareness about what America as a government's position regarding us is, refer commonly to the fact that the legal standard set in the Case of Dredd Vs. Scott (wherein the Supreme Court decided that black people have no rights that a white man is bound to respect) has never been overruled nor overturned. While this is true, the legacy of the courts legalizing our wholesale slaughter has its roots in and goes back much farther than that.
Consider that when the first of the European invaders landed on our lands (yes, I say Our lands, with a truthful knowledge that most so-called African Americans were not brought here as slaves but are in fact descended from the original native peoples of this continent [yes, so called black people are actually what is now referred to as "Indians"]) they did so under what they considered as "religious right," that is, the idea that non-whites are subhuman peoples and thus have no right to any lands that white people "found" and claimed for their respective Monarch.
Being as that is, that was at a time where the courts were not separated from the official positions of the government; wherein they acted nearly as one in the same. So it was the courts of the Europeans, even as the established thirteen American colonies, which gave their colonists and colonies their legal precedent to further exterminate us original / natives peoples from this continent.
My point then is that if they had their courts on their side and that if it was their legal institutions which first gave them what they consider their license / right to kill our people so many centuries ago, and we clearly see and can follow a chronology through time showing that they have not stopped, what does it say then? What kind of condition are we as a people in, in that we ever started and now today continue to ask and even go as far as demand that these very same courts to condemn, stop, and even punish their own people who kill us in cold blood?
If they have never stopped killing us, they never will, unless we come together and actually make them stop. No oppressor in history has even been stopped with anything less than an equal reply! So why then, do we expect otherwise?
