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New Age Lynching by Robert Arend
New Age Lynching by Robert Arend
New Age Lynching by Robert Arend
History,
oh dear let us not go down that dusty, rusty road again--especially not beat
that dead horse over and over again about that best forgotten era of slavery,
quickly revived with the indentured servitude that was the impossible repayment
of debt for sharecroppers; then after that collapsed, recreated through the privatized
prison industrial complex: contemporary America's determination to maintain the
old plantation system of cheap labor no matter the debilitating cost to society.
And
let us not continue to hold as weight the grievances of the black race of the
last century in this new one. The United States Supreme Court has ruled those
corrective measures made law of over 50 years ago are expired, because racial animus
no longer exists anywhere in the United States.
Thank
the Lord, at least, that we have so evolved as a people that the history of the
lynch mobs has become impolite conversation, the very last lynching so 1968 ago that even a
Google search fails to identify the name of that last victim on record. Anybody
know who he or she was? Does anybody really care? I mean, we don't travel for
miles around to enjoy and picnic around such entertainments anymore, so let that
last gone-to-the rope rest peacefully in respect for a forgiven nation.
Oh,
and that Trayvon Martin, that cocky (dare we say "uppity") black man--and don't
keep harping that he was a child, because 16-year-old blacks can't be children; never have
been nor never will be--just because. He brought it all on himself for scaring poor George,
who had a right to defend himself when the pot-smoking vandal didn't show
proper respect by subordinating himself to a stranger at least considerably
paler in skin tone, maybe not white enough, but close enough. Besides, black
males have no business walking around after the sun goes down unless they're
looking for trouble. Poor George was just looking after his neighbors. It just
never occurred to him Trayvon Martin could be one of them. No, it was reasonable to believe the hoodied
black could only have been a menacing one of them.
How
dare the President lecture us about race? I mean he went on and on, even
declaring he could have been Trayvon Martin 35 years ago. Really, did anything
he said make any sense? After all, we didn't have anything to do with what
happened that night, so how unpresidential of him to even comment on something
that should not concern him. The jury ruled. Time to move on.
Why
didn't Obama, when he at least admitted things were not as bad as they used to
be, at least applaud as an example that we don't form lynch mobs anymore to
hang people like Martin. I mean, these days a gun has replaced the rope and the
mob can be just one man. Better that than the other, don'tcha think?
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