The "All White" SCOTUS Bench Is Blind

Evidently, the current batch of ultra-conservative "Supremes" have designs on just about every progressive act the Supreme Court ever produced. In several hacking attacks on justice in our land, the SCOTUS justices swept aside the intent and letter of the law from Brown v. Board of Education (and Thurgood Marshall is rolling over in his grave), as well as undermining over 90 years of consumer protection by rolling back the restrictions on price fixing between retailers and their producers/suppliers.

It's really nice of Chief Justice Roberts to tout the idea of ending racial segregation by merely waving his magic wand and declaring that the way to deal with racism is not to deal in racism. However, as my experience here in Arkansas reveals, the more we stick our head in the sand over racism, the more pronounced it becomes. Sure, we do not have the overt and profound racism of the Reconstruction Era, but many of those victimized by today's versions of racism will tell you, our forms of racism may be worse... Our forms of racism are only marginally hidden just under the surface of our society and are fast becoming re-institutionalized, just as they were under the Jim Crow Laws, and as they were prior to the Civil Rights Movement.

As for the anti-trust reversal and the protections against consumer-focused frauds, the SCOTUS justices have once again sided with big business and corporations over the rights of individuals, working members of our society, the poor, children and families. In other words, they have screwed us over once again. Of course, Congress could undo both rulings with laws that counter these rulings in a constitutional manner. However, it is unlikely that Congress will do so for the following reasons:

1. Almost no one in Congress has read, or understood, our Constitution in a sufficient manner to understand that they are supposed to protect us;

2. Almost everyone in Congress is paid by Big Business and multi-national corporations that control not only the congress critters by way of out-of-control campaign finance, but by controlling access to congress members and the process of making laws by average citizens;

3. No one in Congress has the leadership skills, the charisma or the talent to get out of their own way and pass laws that make any sense to anyone with an iota of intellect or a scintilla of common sense.

Now someone might notice that I referred to the SCOTUS Bench as being "all white" and object, or at least try to correct me. But Clarence Thomas is what we used to call an "Oreo Cookie": Black on the outside and white on the inside. Once that is realized, the "whiteness" of the bench is obvious. Now, someone might find fault with the idea that being "all white" is somehow a bad thing. Given that our society has never been "all white" in the first place, and efforts to make it so are inherently misplaced and misdirected, having a SCOTUS bench that presents as white supremacists is inherently evil.

When we consider our history, we must understand that we are a society of mongrels. Most of our colonial settlers and homesteaders involved themselves in interracial and inter-cultural relationships (sometimes formal and sometimes informal) in some form or another. Thomas Jefferson has been proven to have had intimate relations with one of his slave women. In fact, a majority of slave owners involved themselves in intimate relations with their slaves, partly as a matter of control, partly as a matter of breeding new slaves, and partly because they were immoral bastards that preached one standard and lived by anything but that standard. The French and Spanish explorers and settlers were passionate about intercourse with Native American women, often producing offspring that they rejected.

Several genealogical studies demonstrate that a lot of European surnames reflect interracial family histories involving the Moors of Spain and North Africa (i.e. Black, Schwartz, Blackwell, Moore, Maher, Negroponte, Morris, etc.). These surnames are found throughout Europe and North America, especially in the United States.

So, when we institutionalize our prejudices and racism, we are denying our own heritage and family secrets, as well as violating the very teachings of Christ that so many lily-white Christian Americans claim as the basis for their values... and their racism.

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