The Supreme Court Being What It is

A court for and by and because of white supremacy did it again

Justice Roger Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision of 1857 indoctrinating white supremacy into American life again.

The affirmative action decision was always the end game

The U.S. Supreme Court, despite what you and many others might believe, has never been a friend of African Americans or persons of color in America. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision was just more of the same. If you disagree, fight me. Challenge me.

Here are a few dingers:

Johnson v. McIntosh — 1823

This is the case about colonialism, imperialism, and European expansion — manifest destiny. The court codified the Papal Bulls (decrees from the Pope) of the 15th century, declaring people of color (Indigenous people) as less than human and pagans (non-Christian). For that reason, the rights of white Christians were forever superior to the rights of Indigenous people; basically, they could be robbed, killed, and pillaged (also enslaved).

The Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Marshall writing the opinion, wrote of Native American rights to hand the following:

“the rights of the original inhabitants were, in no instance, entirely disregarded; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted…