excellent read

[SemperEadem]

http://www.timwise.org/2012/03/trayvon-martin-white-america-and-the-return-of-dred-scott/#more-942

he keeps hitting 'em out of the park.

[Moonwalk]

1. Spot on! K&R

We need a smilie with fist raised and head bowed for essays like this. Amazing.

[bigtree]

2. lots to consider

. . . I'm still holding out for some sort of collective epiphany from these defamers and demagogues. It's not as if there's a lack of information and perspectives out here from which they can learn and progress from their lowly, defensive, state of ignorance.

[SemperEadem]

3. as long as they're this invested in their status quo

they're going to remain in their lowly, defensive state of ignorance.

embracing hatred is more important to them than recognizing the hard, ugly, irrefutable truth... aka cognitive dissonance.

[Number23]

4. Wow! I miss a week in this group and you guys are posting one fantastic thread after another!

And like you said, Tim Wise hits it out the park -- AGAIN. The last time he did so, we had a sudden influx of trolls who turned themselves into pretzels trying to minimize what the man is saying.

"Importantly, and this is what is particularly relevant for our current discussion, the Court opined that blacks were clearly never intended to be considered citizens, for had they been so, such designation would have extended to such individuals the unacceptable right “to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law…”

"...This they make clear from their hateful and bigoted musings about Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old black male who made the mistake, in their mind, of forgetting that he had no rights which white men (or even Latino white-male-wannabes like George Zimmerman) need respect. No right to go where he pleased, “without molestation,” no right to be treated like a citizen, indeed like a human being. No rights to due process, to peaceably assemble on a public street, to free speech (which he foolishly tried to exercise by asking his pursuer, Zimmerman, why he was following him), to be free from cruel and unusual punishment (such as extra-judicial execution for being black in a hoodie and thus arousing the suspicions of a paranoid negrophobe). No rights at all."

Great read. Love this guy.