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...Dred locks (for non-African American men) orreally dirty looking hair. Optional earrings.Facial hair is a must. Tracy Chapman tape primedat the ready...
...that the jury's decision will flash to police and other whites across the country is widely shared among blacks. On a scholarly level, Robert Starks, professor of inner city studies education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, asserts, "The message is loud and clear. It reinforces the 1857 Dred Scott dictum that no black man has any rights that a white man is bound to respect. African-American males feel it is open season." Not only males, either. Akos Esi, 36, a professional nurse who has immigrated from Ghana to New York City's Harlem, says, "I think...
...land evolves, sometimes from grotesque early versions. In its Dred Scott decision in 1857, the Supreme Court declared that blacks do not have the rights of citizens. The law has been changed at barricades, in the streets, by a procession of Americans like John Brown, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Women struggled for two or three generations to acquire the right to vote...
Almost 40 years after Dred Scott, well after the Civil War and the l3th, l4th and l5th Amendments had guaranteed the long-denied citizenship and rights within all the United States, the court did it again. Seizing on the 14th Amendment's phrase "equal protection under the law," it upheld, in Plessy vs. Ferguson, a Louisiana statute mandating separate but "equal" public facilities for blacks. Indeed, those challenging Rehnquist's nomination cite a memorandum he once wrote stating, "I think Plessy vs. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed...
Meese has denigrated the Dred Scott and Plessy opinions and has cheered the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education verdict, whose broad result was to end legal segregation. In Brown, said Meese, the court "was restoring the original principle of the Constitution to constitutional law." Yet the Brown decision $ rests primarily on an interpretation, not a strict reading, of the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. And it was attacked by segregationists at the time as social engineering that went against the intentions of the amendment's framers...