Constitutional Government

[H2O Man]

33. Wilson was also a

sexist pig. Yet the OP/thread is not a glaring example of male privilege because that hasn't been mentioned until this point.

Racism continues to saturate our society. I'm always up for a discussion about the severe damage it does. One of my closest friends in life was falsely convicted and incarcerated for 20 years due to racism. I assisted with his legal defense. The federal courts eventually overturned a conviction that was based upon a prosecutor arguing that, because my friend was black, he was predisposed to murdering white people.

Earlier today, an old co-worker visited. Among the things we discussed was a case in the 1990s, when a brown-skinned teenager got a life sentence for being at a party where a white girl -- one week shy of her birthday -- was giving guys blow jobs. None of the white guys were charged. I brought information to the Hurricane's lawyer, but the guy ended up serving a year in Attica before we got him released.

As my extended family includes black, brown, red, yellow, and white human beings, I've been aware of the nature of racism since before I reached my teens. I think the concept of following the Constitution provides the best way of addressing the threat .....using the rule of law fom the local- to the federal level. To create a "more perfect union," despite frequent frustrations along the way. We clearly are not there -- not even close. Yet the advances the country has made are the very things that enrage the brain-dead white Trump cult. They are uncomfortable, as I noted in a recent OP, by seeing non-white people on the television news shows. They are afraid of people like AOC. They fear the growing non-white population in the country -- and they do not believe that non-white human beings share the same constitutional rights as they do. We see this with their attacks on voting rights, for example, a most obvious and important legal right for all citizens.

From years of employment at the local mental health clinic, I know that fears -- especially unrealistic fears -- can result in delusions. And are not the Trump cult members displaying a shared delusional system today? A fucking dangerous one, at that. This is why my last essay on DU was on the rule of law (including my paraphrasing Malcolm X on the right to self-defense), and today on Constitutional Government.