Domestic torture and America's racial hatred

Sharply drawn racial lines in America have clearly marked the different worlds and shaped the experiences and
expectations of Blacks and Whites in the United States. 

The suffering inflicted on Blacks started with our capture in Africa and continued through the horror of the Middle Passage and our arrival on land soaked with the blood of the Indigenous people. The oppression, mistreatment and murder of Blacks was codified under law—the Constitution, the founding document of the country, injected the subhuman status of Blacks in the political lifeblood of the nation. Black people were declared three-fifths of a human being and that was only in relation to the political power and advantages to be given to their slave masters.

With the Dred Scott decision of 1857, it was emphatically declared a Black man had no rights a White man was bound to respect. Once again the courts and the legal system upheld and ensured the second-class status of Black people with Jim Crow laws, housing contracts, country club rules and local ordinances.  Read more...