The federal government has no willingness to enforce the laws. That’s always been the problem, especially below the Mason-Dixon Line. It’s not the black Americans didn’t have the right to vote; they unequivocally had it from the 1870 amendment. It’s that the federal government stopped enforcing it because state governments overrode federal authority through their Party, their white MAGA governors and elected officials, all conservative Democrats until 1964, refused to enforce voting rights laws and the 14th. Instead, they killed black and white Republicans organizing the vote in every election in places like Louisiana in 1866, 1870, 1872, and on and on.
These misnomers are called “massacres”—like Colfax, or Opelousas massacre, have been couched in non-political, ambiguous phrases. They were not and they were not single instances. They were constant killings that were politically organized by Democratic (MAGA conservative) Party against the black and white ‘fusioinist’ Republicans for 30 years. The 1878 election season saw 4,000 black organizing Republicans killed in Louisiana alone, according to the black Americans witnesses who testified before Congress in an 1,800 page report on the Senate record Ii stumbled across and read. It was very clear that the black American witnesses were correct in the Minority Report and shown dignity and respect the two white “fusionist” Republican Senators while the Majority Report, written by Democratic MAGA white Conservative Party member from the South, lied and lied and then covered up some more. The federal government simply could not enforce the law, given that half of it was anti-black and willing to kill to stop blacks and their white allies from voting and organizing the vote. These massive reports and investigations have largely been sanitized from history, despite existing on the senate and other government records.
The EEOC has been largely gutted and useless. I’ve been down this road for 15 years, and reporting on discrimination will not produce justice or victory, and 99 percent of the time no offending manager is held to account, and one percent of the time they are. It used to 67 percent of the time or 33 percent held accountable, but dropped precipitously after Reagan assigned Clarence Thomas, trained by Danforth, to the head of the EEOC with express intent to gut it. The accountability dropped 13 percent, then to 9 percent, 7 percent, 3 percent by 2010 in government employee cases and now stands at 1 percent. 1 percent of offending managers held to account for serious accusation of reprisal, discriminatory comments and slurs and practices is terrible. But the 1 percent allows governments on all levels to say that the system works because they have dog and pony cases they can prop up. Behind the scenes it is gotten and it is an empty gesture. It’s a thorough joke and protects few minorities, blacks, LBGTQ, etc. I’ve spoken as well with many whistleblowers whose live have been ruined and lost their cases. When you go down that road long enough, you see it doesn’t work and is nothing but a Potemkin village.
I support of course continual and brave dialogue and know that all those here support the author who somehow fights everyday to bringing forth history that isn’t allowed to be taught. It is hard work and I thank the internet such intensely intelligent people can successfully confront and debate these critical issues.
