Photo: © Devin Allen, courtesy of Haymarket Books.
Photo: © Devin Allen, courtesy of Haymarket Books.
The Constitution will not protect you from the government of the United States. Laws have no power when they are willfully disregarded on the streets, in the police stations, and in the courts. With each and every passing day, the evidence grows clear: we live in a police state that enforces the practice of slavery under the 13th Amendment.
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Every day, those sworn to uphold the law murder innocent men, women, and children—and they get away with it, as juries agree that extrajudicial assassination is rightfully warranted. At the same time, city and state treasuries payout wrongful death suits in the millions, acknowledging a crime has committed while protecting the criminals.
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You can just about hear Marvin Gaye’s plaintive cry, “Make me wanna holler, throw up my hands” over and over again—but despite the pain, sadness, and rage, resignation is impossible. We know the truth about the government of the United States, from Thomas Jefferson, who kept his own children as slaves to Hillary Clinton, who proudly acknowledged in her book It Takes A Village that she and Bill had slaves in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. Ain’t a damn thing changed.
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Okay, that’s not entirely true. The practice of slavery has transformed from a chattel system to use of the prison industrial complex, hiding it away from the public view, so that all we see are the murders, day in and out. Invariably, it all becomes too much—there is only so much injustice people can stand before an uprising erupts.
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Photo: © Devin Allen, courtesy of Haymarket Books.