Tagged: inalienable rights
“Because impeachment has been so rare, the American people rarely focus on it. That’s good. In a way, it’s great. Impeachment is a remedy of last resort. If We the People don’t discuss impeachment for a decade or two, or three, that’s not the worst news. The likely reason is that our presidents are performing well, or at least well enough. We don’t have to worry over how and whether to get rid of them. But in a way, the citizenry’s failure to discuss impeachment is a big problem, above all on republican grounds. Thanks to the fighters and the founders, we are a self-governing people. In the view of some of the authors of our founding document, the impeachment clause was among the most important parts of the entire Constitution. Pause over that. With the monarchical history looming in the background, they greatly feared a king. Sure, most of them wanted a powerful executive, with Alexander Hamilton helping to lead the charge. But they were ambivalent. They were gravely concerned about the possibility of abuse. They insisted on safeguards in the event that things went badly wrong (and they had a concrete sense of what that might mean). The impeachment mechanism was the most important of these safeguards. If the nation’s leader proved corrupt, invaded their rights, neglected his duty, or otherwise abused his authority, that mechanism gave We the People a way to say: NO MORE.”
Source: Cass R. Sunstein. Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide. pg. 12. 2017.
Marcus Isaiah Washington’s petition for a writ of certiorari has been DISTRIBUTED to the Justices on the Supreme Court and will be considered during their Nov. 24th conference!
I just happened to check the docket for my case and saw that yesterday, it was updated.
There’s no telling what will happen, but I’m excited to see what their response will be.
Mr. Washington’s Petition For Writ of Certiorari [September 23, 2015]:
WME and Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Response Waiver [October 21, 2015]:
less division & MORE UNITY.
We don’t have to agree on everything, but as long as we remain divided, we will NEVER be able to eradicate global white supremacy (racism).
“You had to beg for even a day to worship a great man but you failed to understand that [Dr. Martin Luther] King did not operate alone. There was a man at the same time named Malcolm X. And somebody told you that Malcolm X preached violence!? How the hell [do] you think you got here? By non-violence? How do you think you got lynched? And how do you think King died? By a bullet like Malcolm X…[W]hat is it about one struggling for you that isn’t about the other struggling for you? You let people decide for you who fights for you. What made Malcolm less of a fighter for you than King? They both died fighting in the best way that they knew for their people. None worse or none better than the other, but worst of all, you have not one day cried for Rosa Parks and that sister started it all. Just give them black sisters a chance [and] they will show us brothers the way.” — Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan
“I think that the mission is to unify all African people throughout the world through a single pan-African program to reclaim every inch of Africa for African people, all twelve million square miles of it. To restore African dignity to Africa, to stop imitating Europe, to put Africa back on the road to believing in itself again. Producing for itself, and to end this whole cultism around consumerism and begin to produce the things we eat, the clothes we wear, and the transportation we use. We need to restore self-reliance, because it is a terrible thing for a people to be out of power; and when a people are out of power for so long, they long desperately for power and when they get close to it they panic, because they have not rehearsed for power…education has but one honorable purpose, one alone; everything else is a waste of time… that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power. Being Black and beautiful means nothing until ultimately you’re Black and powerful. The world is ruled by power, not blackness and not by beauty.” — Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Source: Dr. John Henrik Clarke. My Life in Search of Africa. pg. 96. 1999.
“My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Dominque [Haiti] is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“Thomas Jefferson was fully aware of what the long-term impact of enslavement would be on white people and black people and everyone in between that were confused. He talked about the horror associated with what slave masters did and that their children imitated the behavior among their friends and younger children that were enslaved. And that that built into a sickness on the part of Europeans and hatred and antipathy on the part of Africans. [Jefferson’s] greatest fear is that it would end in [the] extermination of one or the other race. He says because God cannot side with us — meaning Europeans — in this contest. He cannot side with us, which means God will side with them. He says, ‘I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever.’ So Thomas Jefferson not only knew at the time, the wrongness associated [with slavery] and recognized the long-term impact that it would it would have. These are his words — I’m not making this up. But somehow, it gets absent of the curriculum. Somehow, it gets removed and we talk about all the other things that he was able to expound upon. And I think that if we’re talking about healing, if we’re talking about a response, we have to look and understand historically, how the injury transmitted itself [and] what it looks like then [and] now and then contrast that with Africa.” — Dr. Joy De Gruy
“The sellers of slaves, [Cornell University professor and author Edward E.] Baptist insists [in his book “The Half Has Never Been Told”], were not generally paternalistic owners who fell on hard times and parted reluctantly with members of their metaphorical plantation ‘families,’ but entrepreneurs who knew an opportunity for gain when they saw one. As for the slave traders — the middlemen — they excelled at maximizing profits. They not only emphasized the labor abilities of those for sale (reinforced by humiliating public inspections of their bodies), but appealed to buyer’s salacious fantasies. In the 1830s, the term ‘fancy girl’ began to appear in slave-trade notices to describe young women who fetched high prices because of their physical attractiveness. ‘Slavery’s frontier,’ Baptist writes, ‘was a white man’s sexual playground.'”
To carry on in the tradition and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “nonviolent, creative protest,” we — American citizens of African descent — must now seek and demand REPARATIONS. Over the last five hundred years, whites have demonstrated to us that they are never going to change and as a result, they must pay for their egregious and on-going crimes against humanity (e.g. slavery, Jim Crow, continuing discrimination, genocide, using Hollywood to project the myth of black inferiority on the collective conscience, etc.).
Source: Eric Foner. “A Brutal Process.” New York Times. October 3, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/books/review/the-half-has-never-been-told-by-edward-e-baptist.html.
“American culture is imbued with fears that African Americans will someday repay the violence and oppression that has marred their history in this country, according to linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky. Speaking with philosopher George Yancy about the roots of American racism, from Native American genocide to anti-black discrimination, Chomsky emphasized the ongoing impact of black enslavement and subjugation in the U.S., saying ‘fears that the victims might rise up and take revenge are deeply rooted in American culture, with reverberations to the present.'”
Source: Kali Holloway. “Noam Chomsky: Slavery and White Fear of Revenge ‘Deeply Rooted in American Culture.'” AlterNet. March 19, 2015. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-slavery-and-white-fear-revenge-deeply-rooted-american-culture.
Me Against Iniquity: Understanding the Complexities of Global White Supremacy (Racism) Through The Eyes of an Unapologetically BLACK Intellectual 
