State Law Vs. Federal Law
There is much talk today regarding having a smaller government with implications regarding States’ Rights. The general rhetoric is states will do what it can for its citizens due to the fact the state knows the situation of its citizens better than the Federal Government and should therefore be allowed to control its own destiny.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made me realize State Laws do not protect all of its citizens, especially the rights of Black. That is why the Federal Government had to step in to make laws regarding equal treatment of all its citizens. The same rationale prompted Brown Vs. Board of Ed. In 1954.
States’ Rights would unquestionably work well if the U.S. were a monolithic society.
What continues to bother me, however, are the un-written mixure (cacophony?) of laws that go under the radar as follow:
- I am mindful F. Lee Bailey saying his law practice was black-balled due to his defense of O. J. Simpson.
- Many years ago, Ex-Mayor Marion Berry telling us when a Black becomes Mayor of a city, large corporations abandon the city thereby eroding its tax base.
- Standards & Poor’s suggesting Republican ill will toward a Black President has put the country on poor economic footing. The erosion continues to date.
- Sports barons making modifications to games due to Black performers i.e. modifications to the basketball hoop and, in the case of Tiger Woods, lengthening some distances to get a golf ball into a hole.
- Tightening drug laws to financially enhance revenue for private prisons by arresting and sentencing mostly Blacks participants.
- Making “To kill a mockingbird” and “The diary of Anna Frank” required reading in the newly integrated schools.
- I am mindful hearing there is a movement in New Jersey to have anti-bullying laws and the schools having a mandate to implement them. I saw a representative of the initiative on C-Span this past week-end. Anti-bullying has now become the newest cottage industry vying for the American dollar and it will be members of the prison complex lending credence.
- This from CNN last week, “Michael Vick has just signed a million dollar contract. At this time last year, he was in jail.”
- The movie “The color purple” receiving no Oscar awards in any category.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. American racism is very difficult to write about due to its various complexities but just as the Congressman said at a hearing regarding pornography, “I can’t describe it to you but I know it when I see it.”
P.P.S. I think the President will be re-elected and he and his constituents will be comfortable seeing this country, due to racism, drift backwards to its pre-Columbian era for a new beginning. "Play it again, Sam!" Casablanca, 1942.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made me realize State Laws do not protect all of its citizens, especially the rights of Black. That is why the Federal Government had to step in to make laws regarding equal treatment of all its citizens. The same rationale prompted Brown Vs. Board of Ed. In 1954.
States’ Rights would unquestionably work well if the U.S. were a monolithic society.
What continues to bother me, however, are the un-written mixure (cacophony?) of laws that go under the radar as follow:
- I am mindful F. Lee Bailey saying his law practice was black-balled due to his defense of O. J. Simpson.
- Many years ago, Ex-Mayor Marion Berry telling us when a Black becomes Mayor of a city, large corporations abandon the city thereby eroding its tax base.
- Standards & Poor’s suggesting Republican ill will toward a Black President has put the country on poor economic footing. The erosion continues to date.
- Sports barons making modifications to games due to Black performers i.e. modifications to the basketball hoop and, in the case of Tiger Woods, lengthening some distances to get a golf ball into a hole.
- Tightening drug laws to financially enhance revenue for private prisons by arresting and sentencing mostly Blacks participants.
- Making “To kill a mockingbird” and “The diary of Anna Frank” required reading in the newly integrated schools.
- I am mindful hearing there is a movement in New Jersey to have anti-bullying laws and the schools having a mandate to implement them. I saw a representative of the initiative on C-Span this past week-end. Anti-bullying has now become the newest cottage industry vying for the American dollar and it will be members of the prison complex lending credence.
- This from CNN last week, “Michael Vick has just signed a million dollar contract. At this time last year, he was in jail.”
- The movie “The color purple” receiving no Oscar awards in any category.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. American racism is very difficult to write about due to its various complexities but just as the Congressman said at a hearing regarding pornography, “I can’t describe it to you but I know it when I see it.”
P.P.S. I think the President will be re-elected and he and his constituents will be comfortable seeing this country, due to racism, drift backwards to its pre-Columbian era for a new beginning. "Play it again, Sam!" Casablanca, 1942.
posted by BB at 3:22 AM
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