White minority rule & police violence explained

The injustice plaguing America is a byproduct of hatred taught in millions of homes nationwide. From those homes come young people who are going to colleges of all kinds from those colleges and universities, including military colleges. They are graduating and entering politics with the hatred taught them in their homes.
And so we get military officers and politicians, lawyers and judges, and people who populate the public and private sectors. They rise to positions of tremendous power, including the prestigious positions of president, Supreme Court justices, and US senators.
Then there are those at the bottom, cops, those who essentially did not do so well in school but want in on the power of whiteness, so they clamor to be a part of law enforcement. Through law enforcement, they get to wield immense power, including the power to take life. And so they opt for the crash course taught in the police academies, light in laws and human rights, heavy on subjugating, shooting to kill, and indoctrination on making people bow to their demands.
After a few weeks of that crash course, they are fully empowered to do as they please to whomever they please.
That is the military arm of white supremacy,(the police) supported by those who never bothered attending college or could not cut it academically.

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Depiction of slave patrol. White patrollers examine slave passes of the enslaved blacks. / Scan via Wikimedia Commons[/caption]

LET US BACKTRACK A LITTLE
During the early enslavement of African people in the United States, the planters were concerned about the number of enslaved people being brought in. Not that they did not like the free labor and the ability to own other people, but their concerns were centered around maintaining control.
As it is today, where real wealth is centered in the hands of a tiny few at the top, the planters also had concerns with the white population that did not have access to the life of luxury and opulence they enjoyed.
So the problem was two-fold, the increasing number of black enslaved people and the impoverished white population that looked at their wealth suspiciously.
A way had to be found to ensure a common cause was not established between the two groups. American racism was born.
The strategy employed included hiring white overseers on the plantations and giving them carte blanch to do as they pleased with the enslaved blacks without consequence. They were allowed to beat, torture, rape, and abuse the slaves.
Additionally, poor white trash was hired as slave patrols, individually and as collectives, to hunt down and capture runaways and return them to their masters.
Although the white underclass resented the wealth and opulence of the super-rich plantation owners, they were happy to be given the power to supervise and hunt down runaways and to inflict punishment on them.
They were happy to have someone to feel superior to. Their hatred for the captive black people far exceeded their envy of the wealth and opulence of their white counterparts.

THE DANGEROUS CLASS

Dr. Philip L. Reichel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology University of Northern Colorado in 2022, wrote, ‘the continual and obvious force developed by the South to control its version of the “dangerous classes” was the slave patrol. The demonization of enslaved black people as dangerous has roots dating back to the genesis of American slavery.
The disingenuous thing about those who owned slaves was a disconnect in their reaction when their captives fled bondage.
Reichel wrote. The portrayal of slaves as docile, happy, and generally content with their bondage has been successfully
challenged in recent decades. We can today express amazement that slaveowners could have been unaware of their slaves’ unhappiness, yet some whites were continually surprised that slaves resisted their status. Such an attitude was not found only among Southern slaveowners. In a 1731 advertisement for a fugitive slave, a New England master was dismayed that this slave had run away “without the least provocation” (quoted in Foner, 1975: 264). Whether provoked in the eyes of slaveholders or not, slaves did resist their bondage. That resistance generally took three forms: running away, criminal acts, and conspiracies or revolts. Any of those actions constituted a danger to whites.
The black enslaved population was not all docile; enslaved people found ingenious ways to fight back. Slave revolts and other means of resistance ensued though most of America’s history as a slave-holding nation has been scrubbed of these events. Poisoning became a treasured tool of the enslaved.
According to Dr. Reichel, consistent with the earliest enforcement techniques identified in English and American history, the first means of controlling enslaved peoples was informal in nature. In 1686 a South Carolina statute said anyone could apprehend, chastise and send home any enslaved person found off their plantation without authorization. In 1690 such action was made everyone’s duty or be fined forty shillings(Henry, 1968: 31). Enforcement of slavery by the average citizen was not to be taken lightly. A 1705 act in Virginia made it legal “for any person or persons whatsoever, to kill or destroy such slaves (i.e., runaways)…without accusation or impeachment of any crime for the same.”

UNDERSTANDING THE FOUNDATION OF THE INHERENT VIOLENCE IN MODERN POLICING

The movement of enslaved people was strictly regulated and enforced. Enslaved people found off the plantations on which they were captives without permission papers faced a gruesome death at the hands of anyone who desired to end their lives.
After slavery, jim crow laws were created to keep the newly released black population in check. Sundown Towns became a thing all across the country. Sundown Towns still exist in the United States today, where black people know that if they are caught after sundown, death potentially awaits. Yes, in 2023.
What makes it so shocking today, as it has been since slavery and directly after emancipation, is that assault on African-Americans in the United States is generally led by the police or whatever exists as law enforcement.
Police are still authorized to use unconstitutional means to stop black people and demand their identification for no legitimate reason, and it’s all legal, according to the supreme court.

WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ROOT OUT THIS VICIOUSLY WICKED SYSTEM
At present, the Republican party is the party mostly in defense of white supremacy and is opposed to expanding voting opportunities to all Americans who qualify. It is the party that stands in the way of police reform. The Republican Governor in Florida has taken extreme steps to limit the teaching of African-American history in high schools and colleges, labeling it ‘woke.’
The Republican majority on the supreme court in 2013 dismantled the 1965 voting rights act under the guise that there is no further need for the law because the conditions that existed that necessitated its passage are no longer here. It goes without saying that the reasoning was an outright lie by the John Roberts court. But dismantling the landmark voting rights law was a longstanding goal of Roberts, a former Reagan administration aide.
Immediately after the decision of the court in Shelby County, Alabama V Holder, Republican-run States set about passing laws making it extremely more difficult to vote. They removed drop boxes, reduced early voting days, closed the majority of the polling stations in predominantly black neighborhoods, and Georgia even made it a crime to offer a person standing on a voting line a bottle of water.
But that was not all; black voters were forced to stand in lines snaking around city blocks to vote. The process resulted in those voters having to spend up to ten hours in order to vote.
To that voter, it means losing a day’s pay to cast their ballot. Losing a day’s pay is a humungous poll tax that African-Americans have been forced to pay since they were allowed to vote, something white voters in suburban and rural areas never have to worry about.

THE EXISTING BUILDING BLOCKS AGAINST ENDING WHITE SUPREMACY AND POLICE VIOLENCE

Several structural built-ins have worked efficiently to ensure the continuation of white supremacy, despite the country’s racial makeup changes.
(1) The senate filibuster: In the Senate, a filibuster is an attempt to delay or block a vote on a piece of legislation or a confirmation. To understand the filibuster, it’s necessary first to consider how the Senate passes a bill. When a senator or a group of senators introduces a new bill, it goes to the appropriate committee for discussion, hearings, and amendments. If a majority of that committee votes in favor, the bill moves to the Senate floor for debate. Once a bill gets to a vote on the Senate floor, it requires a simple majority of 51 votes to pass after debate has ended. But there’s a catch: before it can get to a vote, it actually takes 60 votes to cut off debate, which is why a 60-vote supermajority is now considered the de facto minimum for passing legislation in the Senate. (Brennancenter.org)
(1) Two US senators per state. Each state gets two US senators regardless of size or population. So Wyoming, with just over half a million residents statewide (578,803), has the same clout in the senate as California, with forty million (40, 000,000 )residents, or New York, with twenty million (20,000,000) residents.
The math is simple, Wyoming, with a population of just over half a million residents, 92.4% of them white Caucasians, gets to cancel out the voices of California’s people of color, who make up a whopping 65.3% of that state’s population.
(3) White minority rule: Intelligencer reports Republican senators haven’t represented a majority of the U.S. population since 1996 and haven’t together won a majority of Senate votes since 1998. Yet the GOP controlled the Senate from 1995 through 2007 (with a brief interregnum in 2001–02 after a party switch by Jim Jeffords) and again from 2015 until 2021Five Supreme Court justices (and many lower court judges) were confirmed by senates where the GOP majority was elected with less popular support than Democrats. Those right-wing hardliners are now poised to use their control over the court to attack voting rights and preserve Republican gerrymanders while striking down progressive policies. This same minority rule has also paved the way for massive tax cuts for the rich under George W. Bush and Donald Trump, facilitating economic inequality.
Even though the US senate is almost evenly split between Republicans, who represent white supremacy, and the Democratic party, which represents everyone else, Democratic senators represent tens of millions more people than their Republican counterparts.
Vox.com reported The implications of this malapportionment are breathtaking. Among other things, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by a bloc of senators representing less than half the country. If the United States chose its leaders in free and fair elections, none of these individuals would serve on the Supreme Court — and Democratic appointees would likely have a majority on the Court.
It goes further than Vox imagined; John Roberts the chief justice, and Samuel Alito were elected by president George W Bush who also lost the popular vote.
Five of the six Republicans on the court taking away rights that Americans enjoyed for decades have been appointed by two presidents put in place against the wishes of the majority of the American people through the monstrosity called the Electoral college. No other so-called democratic nation has a system that ignores the majority of its voters and replaces their will with a convoluted system in which the loser becomes the winner.