Technical Difficulties

Today, I planned on embedding this video into my blog, but due to some unforeseen technical difficulties in blogging software and youtubes’ huge memory requirement, I will not be doing that today. Instead, have a link
Part 1
Take a very close look at part 1. Allow me to summarize it for you. Before World War 2, most black Americans lived in the rural areas. Prejudice and racism was limited mostly to the south, and America was alright with that. Around World War 2, blacks started moving into cities, northern cities. Suddenly, discrimination spread across America. Places were blacks lived in numbers became ghettos, schools and businesses segregated, and in general it was a bad time to be black. The American House and Senate were deadlocked between destroying racism and ignoring it. America was involved in the Cold War, so it was bad publicity to not practice true democracy at home. So the Supreme Court stepped in to remedy the situation, and bring the south back in line.
The later parts of this lecture go on to discuss how the American justice system eventually turned on black America, and went from liberating minorities from unfair practice to jailing them in order to control the more “dangerous” elements of society. Perhaps it takes something as harsh as segregation to spur the justice system to do its job; if it goes too long without doing something important, it gets lazy, complacent, and occasionally malicious.

Sounds like a riveting story, no? That’s because it is. Now, I know that this blog may seem a bit off topic, but it is really completely on topic. Here we see the justice system actually doing its job and standing up to bigotry. Those people who are against “legislating from the bench” better not be black, because without bench legislators America would be a much meaner place, full of restrooms for all of the separate “races”.