But, the criminal justice system also had nothing to do say in the conviction and execution of thousands and thousands of black Americans. I’m talking about the massacre-lynchings from 1834-1980. During that time period, the organized group of white men who got weapons and set out to hunt down a black man, men, or women, were not concerned with proper conviction and trial. In fact, they were against it. They fabricated the allegation, then, with that allegation acting as a target put on the black of a black man, they set out fully armed towards that target ready to execute, their verdict decided once they picked up their weapons, once the put the target-allegation on the black Americans.
The American constitutional justice system played no roll in preventing them or in stopping this action. The president, for all his power as Commander-in-Chief of Executive Branch, the branch that enforces laws, did nothing to stand up and morally denounce all this bloody, depraved white male organized murder of black Americans. By not intervening, or even announcing he would intervene, or saying he would not intervene in the case of some of them, he refused to implement justice or seek justice for the innocent murder black Americans. Because he refused American justice, every single black American killed during that time period was innocent because they were not proven guilty in a court of law. It was not until 2022 that a President finally passed a law against it, making a moral statement, the Emmitt Till Any-Lynching law, a law first proposed by a black congressman in 1900. To ignore just for 122–worse, to not even make a moral stand openly against this horrid and illegal practice—is truly depraved. Yet it went on and on and on and on.
Thanks for another great piece of inspiring insights and background reporting.