Dred Scott and Reparations
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Curtis Anthony Hervey
My 18,000 word thesis earned me a Masters of Biblical Studies degree (a wholistic plan to empower low-income black America). I'm here to network for publication and to seek out like-minded African Americans (curtis.hervey@yahoo.com). As a Distinguished Graduate of OCS, I seek to apply battle-tested military principles to solving black pathology by issuing a national warning order. I'm an iconoclast, my doctrine is Washingtonian (as in Booker T.) and my role is that of Socratic Gadfly. By Curtis Anthony Hervey
Published on 02/21/2010
According to the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling, there are no reparations due to us descendants of slaves.
Dred Scott and Reparations
Few things annoy me more than the scam of reparations. This rhetoric is just another distraction that will never materialize.
Deep down inside the heart of every black person, he knows that the white power structure will NEVER agree to pay blacks one dime. And why should they? Wheres the legal precedence?
Did not the Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling of 1857 conclusively settle the matter of slave rights? Slaves did not have legal rights before the US Consitution. Consequently, the newly-emancipated slaves could not sue for reparations. And, as a result, the descendants of slaves do not have a legal leg to stand on either.
Other reparations apologists trace their argument to the Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (EP). the problem here is that, technically, Lincoln has no legal jurisdiction over the confederacy because of secession. This meant the Emanicpation Proclamation was little more than a political and military tactic to destablize the confederacy. And it worked.
Other reparationists cite the "forty acres and a mule" provision of the EP, but fail to relate how Lincoln's successor, racist Andrew Johnson, REVERSED this policy after June 1865 and returned the confiscated lands to their white owners.
So, then, even though you can make a weak MORAL argument for reparations, you cannot make a legal one, something that would actually stand up in a court of law. The establishment is in no way legally obligated to pay us one cent. We are entitled to nothing, not even an apology for slavery because our ancestors were legally property, no different in the eyes of the law than a desk or chair or a beast of burden. This is harsh, but true.
No, there only Three Options for African Amricans we need to consider this Black History Month:
1. we can continue to ask, beg, ;lead, petition for redress and panhandle the establishment for what we think they owe us.
2. We can TAKE what we think is owed to us through by force through violence.
3. we can learn the lessons of segregation and re-establish our autonomy, independence and self-reliance we squandered for the "fools' gold" that was integration (assimilation): Remember the "Black Wall Street" of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Imagine that on a national scale.
Now, option one has been done to death and has failed. We've hit a glass ceiling and the establishment will do nothing that actually threatens white supremacy, so the chances of them ever making blacks equal are nil.
Option two is suicidal considering the fact that blacks consitute only 13% of the US population and are completle surrounded by white suburbs (a tactically nightmare). Besides, it would be an amoral endeavor.
Option three is the only rational and realistic course of action. It just makes sense that if the establishment won't share a piece of the American Pie with us, we need just go out and bake our own.
This is exactly what the great Booker T. Washington (BTW) was telling us when he said, "It is the bottom of life we must begin, not the top" and "throw your bucket down where you are." We, as a people failed to heed this prophet and now we have virtually nothing to show for all our "freedom."
BTW knew that we would eventually need an economic base because green is the only color of freedom in a capitalistic system and industry is the basis for real poilitical power (lobbying).
Also, he knew we would have to develop a means of self-employment because of white supremacy and the competitive nature of a free enterprise system. Always that it is not in the best interests of the establishment to grant literal equality to blacks.
Why on earth would the ruling class actually want the black community to compete with them on a level playing field for the limited resources of this country?
This is what I'm all about, this is my doctrine in a nutshell, because, as you can plainly see, I have done my homework and used military principles to reach my conclusion.
This is what my National Warning Order manuscript deals with. It is an actually plan to be disseminated to the masses. But, it must be "proofed" by a staff of subject-matter experts which is why I'm here at this forum.
Won't you join me? Let's actually make some history instead of just reading and talking about it. I will be waiting to hear from you.
Deep down inside the heart of every black person, he knows that the white power structure will NEVER agree to pay blacks one dime. And why should they? Wheres the legal precedence?
Did not the Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling of 1857 conclusively settle the matter of slave rights? Slaves did not have legal rights before the US Consitution. Consequently, the newly-emancipated slaves could not sue for reparations. And, as a result, the descendants of slaves do not have a legal leg to stand on either.
Other reparations apologists trace their argument to the Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (EP). the problem here is that, technically, Lincoln has no legal jurisdiction over the confederacy because of secession. This meant the Emanicpation Proclamation was little more than a political and military tactic to destablize the confederacy. And it worked.
Other reparationists cite the "forty acres and a mule" provision of the EP, but fail to relate how Lincoln's successor, racist Andrew Johnson, REVERSED this policy after June 1865 and returned the confiscated lands to their white owners.
So, then, even though you can make a weak MORAL argument for reparations, you cannot make a legal one, something that would actually stand up in a court of law. The establishment is in no way legally obligated to pay us one cent. We are entitled to nothing, not even an apology for slavery because our ancestors were legally property, no different in the eyes of the law than a desk or chair or a beast of burden. This is harsh, but true.
No, there only Three Options for African Amricans we need to consider this Black History Month:
1. we can continue to ask, beg, ;lead, petition for redress and panhandle the establishment for what we think they owe us.
2. We can TAKE what we think is owed to us through by force through violence.
3. we can learn the lessons of segregation and re-establish our autonomy, independence and self-reliance we squandered for the "fools' gold" that was integration (assimilation): Remember the "Black Wall Street" of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Imagine that on a national scale.
Now, option one has been done to death and has failed. We've hit a glass ceiling and the establishment will do nothing that actually threatens white supremacy, so the chances of them ever making blacks equal are nil.
Option two is suicidal considering the fact that blacks consitute only 13% of the US population and are completle surrounded by white suburbs (a tactically nightmare). Besides, it would be an amoral endeavor.
Option three is the only rational and realistic course of action. It just makes sense that if the establishment won't share a piece of the American Pie with us, we need just go out and bake our own.
This is exactly what the great Booker T. Washington (BTW) was telling us when he said, "It is the bottom of life we must begin, not the top" and "throw your bucket down where you are." We, as a people failed to heed this prophet and now we have virtually nothing to show for all our "freedom."
BTW knew that we would eventually need an economic base because green is the only color of freedom in a capitalistic system and industry is the basis for real poilitical power (lobbying).
Also, he knew we would have to develop a means of self-employment because of white supremacy and the competitive nature of a free enterprise system. Always that it is not in the best interests of the establishment to grant literal equality to blacks.
Why on earth would the ruling class actually want the black community to compete with them on a level playing field for the limited resources of this country?
This is what I'm all about, this is my doctrine in a nutshell, because, as you can plainly see, I have done my homework and used military principles to reach my conclusion.
This is what my National Warning Order manuscript deals with. It is an actually plan to be disseminated to the masses. But, it must be "proofed" by a staff of subject-matter experts which is why I'm here at this forum.
Won't you join me? Let's actually make some history instead of just reading and talking about it. I will be waiting to hear from you.