WE ARE BY DEFAULT

"On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, of the United States Supreme Court, expressed an opinion whose remnants still foul the air of America today. He stated, “But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior race, and altogether unfit to associate with the white races, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."-Internet article

Here Justice Taney exhibited the “soul” of the white man which hasn’t been questioned to this day. When he said, the history of EVERY European nation, he made no mistake in pointing out that America was a European nation. While the white abolitionist of the day seized upon the latter part of his comments regarding white men respecting the rights of blacks, they never questioned Taney’s assertion that America was a European nation. They didn’t because they were of European descent and it would follow that if you where not European, then you where by default not a full member of this nation and your full rights could be truncated in private.

Today, white “Americans” hide their association with America being a European nation because politically and economically it’s not good to make the inferior, feel inferior. They speak with cohesiveness, but act with white nationalism. The recent Supreme Court decisions regarding race and education speaks volumes to support this claim. Further the criminal justice system reflects iron plantations filled with black bodies. The cities are engaged in urban removal of “undesirable” blacks while being replaced with “refugees or hard working” immigrants. The bottom line is that people who come to America from their own nations are treated with more respect than the descendants of the enslaved. This is because the descendents of the enslaved had no nation in 1857 and no nation in 2007 to garner respect, except the European nation of Taney.

When blacks realize this undisputed fact, then perhaps we’ll see that reparations are in order and we should leave this European nation. Even if we settle in a “black” nation that is presently controlled by neo colonialist, we still wouldn’t have to deal with racial prejudice on the national level. We would have other issues, but the one that attacks your “place” in the world and by extension your sense of belonging, wouldn’t be one of them.