Laying waste to the spirit of Representative Governance, particularly as refined by Lincoln’s “Proclamation” and no less, the 14th Amendment, seems to be the only purpose of Politicized America where passing laws to both mask a political preference or legislative barb has rendered contemporary government still born or, at best, a haven for predators. And, quite frankly, much of the legal system fairs no better.
Whatever form of racism there may be I’m more considerate of the possibility that whatever the ism may be that it is more akin to opportunism than it is color of skin, but I’ll postpone pursuing the notion in favor of the greater point which is this: For all the laws that exist supposedly to make some thing or some issue illegal or unlawful, why then are these so-called legislative successes best known for how so efficiently they fail? Why is there a need to pass a law when a constitutional provision exists specifically defining the prohibition which the law claims to singularly assert? Why is it that laws are so routinely passed whose sole purposes is to dilute the very protection the constitution preserves?
Regardless of the color of your skin the fact remains that there is no or should there ever be, at least post-14th Amendment, any schematic that would tolerate race distinction and the proof of this is easily understood by considering the following query: Would the Supreme Courts “Brown v. Board of Education” decision have been required had Lincoln’s mandate, the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment been enforced? If not, then why would we think that passing a law would fare any better?
The great benefit of the Legal System is not in its ability to levy bias or even punishment, but in its ability to demonstrate and encourage right-thinking. Any more is nearly personally politically-poisonous to consider and yet the facts remain that if the Legal System was used in this manner to highlight various abuses accompanied with appropriate punishment universally applied could you imagine how quickly wrong actions would be curtailed.
When the political process is left to its own devices of self-indulgence and self-service it will, as it has proven itself supremely capable of doing, color-in whatever shade serves its purpose without regard to the stain it creates and persists by inducement. It’s quite extraordinary, if you care to think on it, of how Trump’s attempt to garner the favor of “Blacks” is seen as political opportunism when it is, in fact, political opportunism that has bond them to a punishing form of derelict-allegiance with nary a second thought.
Then again, it seems there are few among us who aren’t at equal risk for the very same form of bondage. The existence of this twisted form of intellectual lethargy is yet another indication of how fascism has greyed the color of representative democracy into a cult of the non-descript, disparate and the featureless.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
