Politikos

By Humberto Gmez Sequeira-HuGS 18 de febrero de 2014

The Lynching Roots of the American Justice System

The American justice system is rooted on lynching as the practice of one of the principles upon which the synthetic country called America was founded: slavery The ownership of slaves was incorporated into the constitution of the invaders who ignited the enduring genocide of the American !ndian nations to steal their land as a sacred private property right preserved "y god# the State and the $hurch The slaver did not treat the slave as a person endowed "y nature with the natural properties of sensi"ility# freedom and e%uality The psychology of the white American children was shaped "y the impressions caused "y the furious lynching mo"s in the Circus Maximus of the feudal aristocracy The children who were wet&nursed "y African women were ta'en "y their parents to see the hanging of African persons as the representation of an act of justice and amusement that made the family picnic more enjoya"le The American sense of justice was designed with the images of the tongue of an African man pushed out of his mouth "y the force of his "ody hanging from the lynchers( halter and the scent of "lac' "urnt s'in on the lynchers( pyre That is the model)a volatile mi*ture of ignorance# avarice and hate)that the invaders of America used to construct the feelings of self&righteousness and love for the one nation under god that they superimposed over the "ones of the American !ndian and African nations The perception of justice is still affected "y the hallucinations of the master caste: god# country# race# and power This is the reason jurors continue to find the African American victims of crimes inspired "y slavery guilty of not loo'ing white