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by Karen Hatter | April 30, 2008 at 06:37 am
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The majority of people of African descent, living in America, do not have the luxury of compartmentalizing our collective experience here in America, beginning with forced immigration, enslavement, the Black Codes, Jim Crow, and after slavery, in modern times, the long list of inequalities and abuses that have been brought down upon our heads as a result of who we are and our past relationship to those in stewardship, of non African descent, in America, when we express our feelings, beliefs and concerns over our past and for our as yet to be known futures in America.
Many Americans find it difficult and it makes them uneasy to hear a perspective that does not reflect the experiences of their own. It's difficult to understand another's perspective if one can't hear the speaker because one doesn't like what the speaker is saying.
Race, in America, has remained a divisive force among many Americans, not because America's citizens of African descent speak of it; because the society has never reconciled itself to the reality that for centuries, those of African descent lived in a world so different, with many continuing to do so, it would seemingly require, literally, a physical transformation and, as that saying attributed to caretakers of the land before the establishment of European colonies here, the ability to 'walk in another's moccasins'.
Numerous studies and reports, regarding societal development along separate paths in the United States, including the report commissioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson, have been conducted over the past few decades that indicate all that has transpired in America, since its inception, has shaped the psyches and consciences of all in America, Black and White, resulting in divergent view points on many things due to our life experiences.
The African slave trade and the system of chattel slavery became major sources of wealth for Europe. Estimates of the number of Africans taken from the continent during the nearly five hundred year period, including the East Coast Slave Trade, carried on by the Arabs of the Middle East, reaches beyond 30 million, taking into account all the European nations involved in the transport of Africans.
As Europe emerged out of the times known as the Dark Ages and as it recovered from the loss of life during the plague that came to be known as the Black Death, the wealth generated from the transport of Africans and their enslavement allowed Europe to continue to rebuild, seeking new, previously unexplored territories outside of Europe.
All who partook of the wealth generated during the slave trade, received a leg up, economically, at the expense of lowering an entire continent of people to the status of less than human for those purposes.
I hear and read, nearly on a nonstop basis, the admonition to just 'get over slavery'. Our lives here right now are representative of our ancestors somehow grabbing hold to their belief in a Creator and against so many odds, including choosing not to take their own lives out of heartbreak and despair, who lived to continue, despite their hardships and struggles, in spite of slavery, so that each generation reaped the benefit of the succeeding generations' struggles, propelling us forward until we've arrived here.
One of the silliest notions that exists, whenever anyone of African descent speaks of historical matters that occurred due to America's history and how it viewed race, is that the speaker is playing the 'race' card.
For most within the African American community, the 'race' card is not some trump card that helps you 'win' any discussion or debate, as has been discussed by Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son.
Virtually every time, whenever race is mentioned by an African American, nearly every discussion veers off course, with the speaker being called out for expressing a belief based on their life experience.
For all of my children's lives, our family has lived in a predominately White community. My oldest daughter was five years old when she began kindergarten. She had one child, who happened to be a White child, that she called her best friend. She and the little girl played together during recess after lunch. My daughter began school in 1994.
One day, as she and her friend approached another group of girls, they asked the other children if they could play with them. They were told that my daughter's friend could play but, my daughter could not because she was Black.
When my oldest entered 3rd grade, in 1998, another friend, who also happened to be a White girl, explained to my child that, according to the child's older sister, it was alright for my daughter to be friends with her but one day, when they got older, they couldn't be friends any longer because my daughter was Black.
Now, I sent my daughter out into the world to attend school in 1994 yet, it was as if she had been attempting to break the color line at her school in the 50's and 60's. Why is that? Can anyone imagine trying to explain these things to a five year old? This is not a unique set of circumstances or occurrences in the African American community. Is speaking of these incidents somehow playing the 'race' card? Some would most likely say it is.
However, I shared this story to illustrate that a child, who obviously wasn't concerned about the color of her playmates, was introduced to the concept of exclusionary race based customs, by White children, as she attempted to interact in the world, heedless of the complicated concepts and issues that weigh heavily on the collective American psyche regarding race.
In reality, that imaginary 'race' card? It's more like the Old Maid card in the children's card game of that same name because we know, that is, if you're an African American, when you get stuck with that card in your hand at the end of the game, you lose.
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at 07:00 on April 30th, 2008
Your daughter's kindergarten experience is a Nina Simone song: in this case that isn't a good thing. I think a lot of discomfort with confronting this is that it's so different from the narrative we've all been taught in school: that the "civil rights era" is a distant, closed chapter. If only.
at 07:28 on April 30th, 2008
Thank you for the flag and your thoughts, Jordan.
at 08:02 on April 30th, 2008
Karen - thank you for sharing this story. I agree with Jordan too, the 'civil rights era' is not a closed chapter, unfortunately, for many.
at 08:09 on April 30th, 2008
Rhonda, thank you for the flag and your thoughts.
at 08:17 on April 30th, 2008
Quite frankly, I don't foresee this country reconciling race issues anytime soon. Your daughter's story is sadly not unique to people of African descent. Some blacks do the same things to whites, Latinos, and other ethnic groups. This pathetic situation is played out all too often and no matter who plays which role it is sad. Luckily there are more and more people willing to throw off old prejudices but not enough.
at 08:19 on April 30th, 2008
Thank you for the flag, Big T.
at 08:41 on April 30th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff....OUTSTANDING stuff! Might I add that you don't lose in holding the "truth card."
Racism is alive and well in the U.S....and if Obama wins the Democratic nomination...hold on to your hats! We will see the worst in the worst and the best in the best.
We can criticize Americans in many areas, but we must remember that good and evil exist in this country as well as others. Combating ignorance and hate without aknowledging that some Americans are about wisdom and love would be a mistake.
My hope is in the fact that I know the "truth card"...and that is that wisdom and love win every time!
Karen, thanks for this great piece!
(from a guy that was often called "commie" as a child for having Russian parents....who BTW escaped communism...go figure!)
at 08:47 on April 30th, 2008
Thank you so much for the flag and your thoughts, TheBigRuski.
at 09:14 on April 30th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.Excellent story Karen, quite an eye opener. Never being a card playermyself, there is a rainbow of cards out there, some are excuses, some are culture, some are race, and as you said, sometimes you are stuck with the hand your dealt with.
Some may be stuck with that hand, but the "True Gambler" never folds, never shows their hand, let's hope your daughter is a "True Gambler".
at 09:18 on April 30th, 2008
Thanks, Barry, for the flag and your input.
at 10:37 on April 30th, 2008
Barry, you have a brillant way with words...
at 11:13 on April 30th, 2008
Thanks Politisite for the kind words, I don't know if my words are any more brillant than anyone elses here, I just observe what is being said. I pretty much grew up in areas devoid of Black people, mostly populated by First Nations or White and mixed race Country folk areas.
My first experience meeting any one other than White or First Nations was for a time I lived in Imperial Beach, San Diego, and my friends were Mexican and White. That was pretty much it. It was only when I was in the Military I met a Black guy in my unit who was born in Newfoundland. We really never gave it much thought as he was one of our troop and utterly insane and hilarious as most "NEWFS" are, we drank, partied, enjoyed comraderie.
Now First Nations I experienced racism, but that was more so from out of towners who would visit our small town, by the way the same Town Brian Mulroney grew up in. Much to our deelite we discovered "toothpicks do wonders to car door locks", nothing like watching Redneck Tourists standing around in Freezing Rain looking for a locksmith.
As for Blacks being sold into slavery, my Grandfather used to say "Hell son, we Irish used to be given away as Gifts".
In ending Slavery comes in many forms, racism comes in one form. For some, they move, for some they stand their ground, the last group improve themselves and work above and not waste their breath to those who see them differently from the rest of the Deck.
Of course no easy task, when White Pointy Hats are setting up Crosses on your lawn, then it best to be movin on for the sake of the kids. There are far better places to live than a place which doesn't want you. Don't dwell on it, move on, Its their Loss.
at 10:41 on April 30th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like that you related personal experience. I think, when stories of race a brought forth, it is from some time in the past. It is very difficult to argue with personal experience. My experience with my daughter Melissa, part Filipino, was her set of friends was diverse. I was proud to see that she was color blind. He friends consisted of White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic. I was looking at a photo the other day, as one of the children was killed in a fire, remembering the event. I really wanted my family to grow up w/o race as an issue. Now, she had been separated because she wasn't all white at times, certainly not like what happens to blacks who have one white parent and one black parent. I just shared with her that, others were jealous because they don't have a nice tan or something along those lines. As she got older the responses were more about how boys thought Filipino Girls were easy a stereo type that came from service men in the Philippines. I would just tell her that some people as unconformable with who they are and project anger toward others. Or, explain where these false beliefs came from.
Karen, I want an America where we can be diverse, but be united at the same time. It concerns me that where some of us try to move toward unity, some in the African-American communities still accuse me of being racist and that my family had slaves. Just by the COLOR of my skin.
My family was poor, came to the new land in 1749, lived in PA, no slaves anywhere in my family. Why am I responsible for the actions of other whites? Are all blacks responsible for slavery because a few blacks participated in the slave trade? I really love reading your stuff. It helps me understand what African-Americans are going through. I do attend a mixed church so I also get information from them when and if we chat about it. Mostly we just enjoy one another. Am I weird?
Another thing, Kudos to NowPublic Contrbuters who are conservative, who read you, and flag your work. NP is a diverse group who are willing to hear the news from all sides.
at 10:39 on April 30th, 2008
Personally, I am tiring of the the self-pity African American leaders espouse on the race of Blacks. Black people should be proud, stand tall and refuse to take the back seat and refuse to be killed by the racists and the reverse discriminationist - insist only on justice. That is the circumstances that will change what the children experience and what all blacks of the future experience. Reconciliation is not only to come from white people. Don't forget who actually sold the slaves to the Europeans. And just how many blacks living today, have had their lives adversely affected by slavery? Just how many blacks today have had their lives improved by the elimination of slavery could probably answer the aformentioned question.
Black voters are their own worst enemy. Most black people hang so unquestionably with their own "color" they cannot see their true enemy. The liberal left has concocted a homogenious mixture of death and dependency for black persons, based solely on the deceptive and false corelation of race with so-called gay rights and women's rights. Deviant sexual behavior is something someone does...it is a behavior and a bad deadly behavior at that - there are no civil rights for sexually deviant behavior. Race and gender are something someone is. Black persons in general embrace the leftist ideologies that destroy their own futures. At least, 1/3rd of blacks are killled by abortion, yet they delude themselves in thinking that being Pro-Life is somehow oppressing people. The truth is, being Pro-Choice is genocide for blacks. I just don't know how blacks can support an ideology that kill more blacks in one year than have died at the hands of slavery in all history of slavery combined.
Surely, you all know the Killer Angel of the 20th Century? If not please read about her for free here
Killer Angel - A Biography of Planned Parenthood's founder
http://www.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/39ba_47e.htm
And, how about Bill Clinton a.k.a. the first black president rushing to kill more blacks and impoverished human weeds as Margaret Sanger refers to them:
The Clinton RU-486 Files - http://judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/jw-ru486-report.pdf
Children always have difficult times in schools - but its no solution to kill over 1/3rd of a race before they get to see the light of day so that they won't have to endure any inequities. Blacks HAVE to stop aligning themselves with just any group that comes along and leverages their oppression. Yes, blacks have been oppressed. And, yes, blacks are oppressing themselves today.
Stop the killing of the unborn blacks! Stop the killing of unborn Women! Stop the killing of the unborn little boys and girls! Stop the killing of the impoverished unborn children! Stop the killing of the uneducated's unborn children!
www.blackgenocide.com
at 11:38 on April 30th, 2008
Thank you, Politisite, for the flag and for sharing your thoughts.
at 11:44 on April 30th, 2008
Your welcome, as always, excellent work, few have yuor flare for the art.
at 15:03 on April 30th, 2008
It has long been since way as far as you can remember that when a normal person goes through problems such as puberty when their ages 13 and 16 and in between those ages that normal people don't get done nor treated like a criminal for it. Yet if someone different in creed with problems goes through puberty body changes they get done and treated like a criminal and called a criminal for it. Those that see to people different in creed normal people seem to make sure they get put in care or something just as bad no matter what this has been happening to those who are different in creed since the 70's when they came to take them away for the first time you remember that song they created about retards "Their Coming To Take Them Away Ha! Ha!" well they did and still do today in more ways than one. From my point of view that's discrimination and bullying and they do that to those who are different in creed just cause their different from normal people. If you did that to normal people and forcely imprisoned into care or something just as bad then you would get done and told to obey not to do that or else yet if it's someone different in creed been put in care or just as bad then you don't get done for false imprisonment over differences in creed. Then really there's no law for that and that who ever gets put in care cause of their difference in care shouldn't have to be put in care nor treated like a criminal for it. That's what Hitler did jews just cause they are jews and that is wrong. It's a bit like when a famer uses his sheep dog to gather up all his sheep by the sheep dog and forced into the pen by commands from the farmer pulling the sheep dog strings it's just like what Hitler in fact very similar to what Hitler did. I would say it's like Hitler days still going on cause the nation today believe they still have to act like that towards differences in creed just cause that's what happened in the War days of the second World War or something like that. Well those that do I say to them fuck you and hope the same happens to those that have done that. There was this Horror Film that where normal people ended up in a care home for doing that to those who are different in creed. That'll be the day for a change. Normal people think there clever and better than those that are different in creed well normal people are not cause it's those who was normal that did that to those who are different in creed back in the 70's that doesn't make them any better than Hitler that did that to those who are different in care. If it wasn't for someone starting that of in the 70's towards differences in creed then they probably wouldn't have been so much hate and violence towards differences in care that normal people do some of them very terrifying to the one normal people do to differences in creed though they wouldn't show you that cause of staff that are like that towards them if they try to be normal and have a normal lifestyle it gets taken away from them if a care staff or some other staff sees they try to lead a normal life and lifestyle and from my point of view that is wrongdoing what care staff do and it's like sentensing you to death.
It's not those that are different in creed fault if they get into trouble for something they didn't want on them to happen in the first place just some normal people get them into that situation cause some normal people don't like them and some normal people would lie about what that normal person did to get the one that's different in creed into trouble and in care for what the normal person did.
That's got to stop. Now!
at 04:32 on May 1st, 2008
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, ThomasBurnBerg.
at 19:36 on April 30th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:33 on May 1st, 2008
Thank you, Azzayindia.
at 12:49 on May 2nd, 2008
I find this guy’s view refreshing to say the least ;)
Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The whole thang is here…
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=603&Itemid=1
Personally I found that Jon Stewart at The Daily Show addressed the whole Wright hoopla with rare aplomb & a lot of class indeed... Check the related clips from this week’s jubilation ;)
I’ve picked up a few lines from the article that I find particularly interesting…
The world views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama were incompatible from the start, just as the mythical American Manifest Destiny world view is directly at odds with the facts as perceived by Blacks in the United States. Wright finally forced Obama to choose sides in the conflict of racial/historical visions, and in doing so, performed a service on behalf of clarity.
The very premise - that race neutrality is possible in a nation built on white supremacy - demanded the systematic practice of the most profound race-factual denial, which is ultimately indistinguishable from rank dishonesty. From the moment Obama told the 2004 Democratic National Convention that "there is no white America, there is no Black America," it was inevitable that the candidate would one day declare the vast body of Black opinion illegitimate.
Under questioning from reporters in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Obama swore up and down that he had never before, in 16 years as a member of Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ congregation, observed his pastor behave in such a way. The declaration rang patently false, as even a red-state Republican white evangelical observer would have recognized Wright's Press Club performance as that of veteran pulpit-master with a vast repertoire of church-pleasing moves and grooves to draw upon, all of them honed over decades for the entertainment of his parishioners - including Obama. But the senator was intent on giving the impression that Rev. Wright was - unbeknownst to Obama - a Jekyll and Hyde character, whose statements "were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate."
An amazingly Bush-like turn of phrase! The man who married Barack and Michelle and baptized their children is now rhetorically linked to Osama bin Laden or the Ku Klux Klan. Clearly, this is what panic looks and sounds like when Obama's flimsy tissues of "race neutrality" are stripped away.
Obama had belabored the same theme in his Philadelphia speech on race, a few weeks earlier - a widely applauded piece of oratory that was at root an exercise in moral equivalence that equated white and Black grievances in the U.S., as if history and gross power discrepancies did not exist. Obama is as quick as any smug corporate commentator to dismiss as the ravings of extremists and those who "prey on hate" the very idea that U.S. imperialism is an historical and current fact. Chickens cannot possibly come home to roost in terroristic revenge as a response to American crimes against humanity, since "good" nations by definition are incapable of such crimes.
In order for his race-neutral strategy to appear sane, Obama must constantly paint a picture of an America that does not exist. This cannot be accomplished without mangling the truth, assaulting the truth-tellers, and misrepresenting America's past and present.
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin
"America is the first empire to go from barbarity to decadence without going through civilization" - Oscar Wilde
at 14:36 on May 2nd, 2008
Thank you very much for your thoughts and contribution to the thread, White Noise.
at 11:24 on May 3rd, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 11:25 on May 3rd, 2008
This shows a deep strenght of the school of thought that you belong, nice piece
at 11:27 on May 3rd, 2008
Thank you so very much, Peter-oyeti.
at 07:27 on May 5th, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
On several occasions Martin Luther King Jr. expressed a view that black Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs. Speaking to Alex Haley in 1965, he said that granting black Americans only equality could not realistically close the economic gap between them and whites. King said that he did not seek a full restitution of wages lost to slavery, which he believed impossible, but proposed a government compensatory program of US$50 billion over ten years to all disadvantaged groups. He posited that "the money spent would be more than amply justified by the benefits that would accrue to the nation through a spectacular decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls, rioting and other social evils."[47] His 1964 book Why We Can't Wait elaborated this idea further, presenting it as an application of the common law regarding settlement of unpaid labor.[48]
Karen I might remind you, that this issue described by Rev. King is very much alive today, and is a long discourse of Law Practice toward Justice brought to decendants of Black Americans. Your daughter being black and many people being black only reminds many Americans of our failed Judicial System. The discrimination comes when whites fail to take responsibility in bridging Justice to the injustice commited by the sins of America's Fathers . Those sins are still with us, and until we look at this issue as a responsibility issue of America instead of displacing the responsibility we will continue to have discrimination . Is it our fault that people go hungry in the world, and so since we are not responsible for their condition we forget about it? Of course not! A Christian Nation stands together to help those in need. Black America Slavery supported America with free labor for over half of its existence as a nation, and we are to think Rev. King is wrong or greedy to seek Justice for Black Americans? On the contrary. He is as right and legitimate as any Legal Law Journal can be. In 1968 in order to stop these claims they actually killed Rev. King. But this does not mean it has gone away, nor does it mean that we give up where Rev. King was left off.
Many people in todays world think because they had nothing to do with Slavery in those days, they are not responsible for the bad things that happened to Black Americans. I like to point out that since it happened under the auspices of the United States of America, all people who support the USA are responsible.
I look at in another way and that is we only need see how America has become by ignoring the claims by Rev. King when we see Prison expansionism at its highest capacity with more than 1 million black inmates incarcerated. It wass 7 blacks to every 1 white in 1990. http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Black+Americans+incarcerated&fr=ush2-mail&u=www.zmag.org/racismandblam.htm&w=black+americans+incarcerated+incarceration+incarcerations&d=ZVfFGjWxQoU4&icp=1&.intl=us
The issue is that if we did the right thing as Rev. King suggested I believe the black prison population would be much lower, with more educated people, and more affluent. This means much less racial prejudices, and less crime. No matter how we look at it American Prisons reflect Racism in America, and as time goes on people associate blacks as being bad people worthy of prison. It is such a travesty to Black America, because essentially they have gone from Slavery to Prison since the founding of our Country. It is quite obvious how embarrassing it is in this year 2008 that we have the first black man to run for President. And he is only 1/2 black. Those who say we do not owe or have a responsibilty to Black America or talk gleefully ungrounded assertions that there is no White or Black America are in my opinion the bigots and oppressors that prolong the agony and suffering of America. When they killed Rev. King they hurt themselves, and now we see what we have done. I work to support Rev. King and his legacy and to bring Justice to Black America and to Establish the Political Framework toward a Nonviolent Society.
at 17:13 on May 5th, 2008
Thank you for your thoughts, Djermano.
at 06:32 on May 12th, 2008
Karen Hatter, this is an excellent peice. Outstanding editorial. Hope it gets lots of exposure, and reaction.
at 08:57 on May 12th, 2008
Thank you, Don Harris.
at 12:11 on August 29th, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA, PLEASE TELL AMERICA YOU FEELINGS ON THIS US JUDICIAL INJUSTICE ???
WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL HORROR CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????** SADLY THIS REPRESSIVE JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM !!!
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS ! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY **** The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide. Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!
***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:: 1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM. ** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !