George Zimmerman Vigilante or Scapegoat

If I can ask us all to be 100% honest for a moment, just as you read this blog, you will all see that some things are not black and white. The emotions are flowing high as the lines are drawn in response to a senseless killing of a teen. One who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. This is also not meant to take lightly the horrible calamity that this family has to deal with. My intentions are purely to get others to think about this situation from all sides to prevent someone from being a victim of violence.

I will not be wearing any hoodies in solidarity because I am 5’ 9” 220 lbs and I look suspicious in a hoodie. Whether, I am in a Black, Hispanic, Asian or White neighborhood people cross the street when I wear one. It makes me look bulkier than I am. You can’t see the smile on my face. The hello tends to be muffled. All that you can see is the shadow created from the hood.

Another issue with hoodies is that the hood can conceal small weapons. I’ve done security all over the Greater Los Angeles area and have found all types of goodies while searching people. 90% of the people that we have found something on were White suburban males. It’s not to say that others don’t have them but the likelihood of minorities being searched by police is higher and a deterrent.

The fashion trend of wearing hoodies has always alluded me do to my build. But I have worn them for track and football seasons to keep warm on cold nights, accompanied by a hat so that I did not have to pull the hood over. Some people wear them to conceal their face or to appear mysterious. It adds to the intrigue. Masking insecurities and shadowy emotions we try to express ourselves through fashion. But to Law Enforcement and Security professionals you are viewed as a potential threat. And the potential danger is real and well documented.

Last year I started getting up at 4am to jog in my White suburban neighborhood. To keep warm I was forced to wear a hoodie since I did not have a skull cap and my hats would get too sweaty. My wife would be worried sick about me because she knew the fear associated with a large Black male wearing a hoodie. Most of the times no one was out running but when they were many other joggers would evade me at all costs. Realistically I could understand their caution because I myself have the same reactions.

Now this is where the story turns, potential does not equate to intent. Caution should never lead to aggression. Suspicion should never lead us to lethal force. Potential should not equate to actual in our minds or fears. George Zimmerman did the unexpected. He chased down and killed a 17 year old boy that he thought was a potential threat. It’s like hearing a Mastiff got mauled by a Grey Hound. Either that or an opportunist was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. This big guy was scared of a small guy, followed him in a car, he ran, big guy jumped out the car to confront him, fight broke out (understandably), small guy got upper hand (while screaming for help?), big guy fired shots out of fear, small guy died and police tried to cover it up. GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE WITH THAT.

This story does not pass any smell tests. First acting suspiciously is no crime. The kid might have been lost or suspicious of Zimmerman (which the conversation with his girlfriend illustrated). Zimmerman being the vigilante that he demonstrated could have made up the suspicion subconsciously. Zimmerman fears (concern) of the kid getting away with a potential crime (from what he told 911 dispatcher), does not equate to fear, as in life threatening. If you thought someone would do harm to you why jump out of a 1 ton weapon to confront death. Oh yes he had a gun (false courage) and knew based on the fact the kid had hand on phone and other holding bag, that kid was without a weapon. Running away from a suspicious psycho always gives them more power, which is what the kid did. Now the hunt was on and Zimmerman was going to get his prey. Now the residents (witnesses) said they heard a kid screaming and pleading. Then the police (accomplices) said that the residents (witnesses) must have heard Zimmerman (with gun and car) screaming for his life. Also noted was that this guy, Zimmerman, had prior to this got into a fight with police because they tried to arrest a friend. Did he scream for his life or did he take it like a man? If he had the wherewithal to get that reduced to a lesser sentence to be eligible for a concealed weapons permit, then my assumption is he knew the “stand your ground” law could potentially work in his favor if lethal force was used. From the 911 call he had thought long and hard about what he deemed as injustice. How the thieves he’d caught in the past had gotten away. Maybe his issue was not race related. But anyway you look at it George Zimmerman was not looking clearly at the situation. All he saw was a premeditated opportunity to finally lay down the law.

According to every state law other than Florida, civilians cannot take the law into their own hands in arresting or subduing criminals; added to the fact that, you can use deadly force to mitigate personal infringements, without the need to back down. In Florid the court systems see a citizen arrest as if it were done by a trained professional Peace Officer. But did Zimmerman have the right to determine whether or not Trayvon Martin lived or died based on his own prejudices (not in a racial sense). How far did he follow this kid to determine his intentions? Or was Zimmerman’s intention to kill him from the beginning?

Blame does not fall squarely on the shoulder of George Zimmerman though. The state of Florida has set no boundaries to regulate a citizen’s use of force. People kill people and not guns. This state doesn’t lack gun control it lacks people control. Even today George Zimmerman has a concealed weapons license. Unless you are convicted of a felony the courts cannot “legal” keep you from carrying a weapon. He has clearly demonstrated that he is a threat to the public.

Based on the phone call testimony of the girlfriend we know Trayvon feared for his life. His father lived in the gated community where he was killed. He was chased down by a man in a car. After being cornered the man jumped out and grabbed or pushed him. He fought for his life only to be shot down. Now let me ask you this who acted in fear of their lives?

Jim Crow Laws By State

This is a compilation of SOME of the information I could find on the internet. With that in mind I did not change the text or grammar much to keep the authenticity of it’s time. Despite what many believe or care to believe these were actual written laws not unwritten laws that a select few decided to follow. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments.

Arizona

1865: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriages between whites with “Negroes, mulattoes, Indians, Mongolians” were declared illegal and void. The word “Descendants” does not appear in the statute.

1901: Miscegenation [Statute] Revision of the 1865 statute which added the word “descendants” to the list of minority groups. The revised statutes also stated that marriages would be valid if legal where they were contracted, but noted that Arizona residents could not evade the law by going to another state to perform the ceremony.

1909: Education [Statute] School district trustees were given the authority to segregate black students from white children only where there were more than eight Negro pupils in the school district. The legislature passed the law over a veto by the governor.

1911-1962: Segregation, miscegenation, voting [Statute] Passed six segregation laws: four against miscegenation and two school segregation statutes, and a voting rights statute that required electors to pass a literacy test. The state’s miscegenation laws prohibited blacks as well as Indians and Asians from marrying whites, and were not repealed until 1962.

1927: Education [Statute] In areas with 25 or more black high school students, an election would be called to determine if these pupils should be segregated in separate but equal facilities.

1928: Miscegenation [State Code] Forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.

1956: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage of person of “Caucasian blood with Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu void.” Native Americans were originally included in an earlier statute, but were deleted by a 1942 amendment.

Arkansas

1866: Education
No African American or racially mixed citizen would be allowed to attend any public education building aside from the one reserved for “colored persons.”

1866: Miscegenation
Repeals or amendments of common laws concerning interracial marriages between whites and African Americans or racially mixed citizens would be prohibited.

1873: Barred Segregation of Public Carriers and Accommodations
It was unlawful for railroads, steamboats, stage coaches, or other public carriers to refuse to provide same accommodations for those who are paying the same fare, however differing in race. This law also applied to any public housing, entertainment, or restaurants.

1873: Barred School Segregation
It was considered unlawful to refuse to provide similar or equal accommodations in an educational system of any age rank.

1884: Miscegenation
All marriages of white persons with African Americans or racially mixed citizens were declared illegal.

1891: Railroads
Railroad companies and their employees had the power to assign passengers to what they considered the proper seat or proper waiting room for each race. The penalties for the person being assigned to not follow directions are that they would be fined between $10 and $200. Employees who decided not to assign a passenger to the correct waiting room or seat were to be fined $25. Railway companies not following the law would be fined between $100 and $500.

1893: Railroads
All railroad companies are required to provide separate but equal accommodations to people of any race. In addition to providing separate passenger cars for people of a different race, the companies were also required to create separate waiting rooms for people of a differing race at all passenger stations in the state.

1897: Education
It was required that there be separate colleges established for teachers for each race.

1903: Streetcars
All streetcar companies were forced to separate white and black passengers in cars. Failure for the passengers or companies to do so would result in these penalties: Passengers who would not take their assigned seats would be charged with a misdemeanor and fined $25. Companies that failed to enforce the law and assign the passengers seats were also found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined $25.

1921: Miscegenation
This law prohibited cohabitation between whites and African Americans and defines the term “African American” as any person who has any African American blood in his or her veins.

1935: Public accommodations
All race tracks and sports establishments were required to be segregated between whites and any person of a differing race.

1947: Public Accommodation
A series of common laws were passed that made segregation at polling places, on railroad cars, streetcars, buses, and within prisons mandatory.

1947: Public accommodation
This required separate washrooms for whites and workers of a differing race in all mines.

1947: Voting rights
This law required voters to pay poll tax when voting in any election.

1947: Miscegenation
This made sexual relations and/or marriage between whites and blacks illegal. The penalty for breaking this law once was a fine of $20 to $100. A second offense resulted in a $100 minimum fine and up to 12 months of imprisonment. Three or more offenses resulted in one to three years of imprisonment.

1947: Health Care
There were to be separate tuberculosis hospitals for African Americans.

1947: Education
Segregation of races in public schools was required.

1957: Education
No children were required to enroll into a racially segregated school.

1957: Public Carrier
Racial segregation on all public carriers (buses, streetcars, etc.) was required by law.

1958: Education
Governor may close schools by polling with a ballot reading: “In support of racial integration of all schools that are a part of the school district,” or “Not in support of racial integration of all schools that are a part of the school district.”

1959: Public Carriers
All interstate buses were required to have assigned segregated seating to all passengers according to race.^[4]

California

In this state, concern about Asian immigration produced more legislation against Chinese immigrants than against African Americans. From 1879 to 1926, California’s constitution stated that “no native of China” shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in the state.” Similar provisions appeared in the constitutions of Oregon and Idaho.

1866-1947: Segregation, voting [Statute] Enacted 17 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1947 in the areas of miscegenation (6) and education (2), employment (1) and a residential ordinance passed by the city of San Francisco that required all Chinese inhabitants to live in one area of the city. Similarly, a miscegenation law passed in 1901 broadened an 1850 law, adding that it was unlawful for white persons to marry “Mongolians.”

1870: Education [Statute] African and Indian children must attend separate schools. A separate school would be established upon the written request by the parents of ten such children. “A less number may be provided for in separate schools in any other manner.”

1872: Alcohol sales [Statute] Prohibited the sale of liquor to Indians. The act remained legal until its repeal in 1920.

1879: Voter rights [Constitution] “No native of China” would ever have the right to vote in the state of California. Repealed in 1926.

1879: Employment [Constitution] Prohibited public bodies from employing Chinese and called upon the legislature to protect “the state…from the burdens and evils arising from” their presence. A statewide anti-Chinese referendum was passed by 99.4 percent of voters in 1879.

1880: Miscegenation [Statute] Made it illegal for white persons to marry a “Negro, mulatto, or Mongolian.”

1890: Residential [City Ordinance] The city of San Francisco ordered all Chinese inhabitants to move into a certain area of the city within six months or face imprisonment. The Bingham Ordinance was later found to be unconstitutional by a federal court.

1891: Residential [Statute] Required all Chinese to carry with them at all times a “certificate of residence.” Without it, a Chinese immigrant could be arrested and jailed.

1894: Voter rights [Constitution] Any person who could not read the Constitution in English or write his name would be disfranchised. An advisory referendum indicated that nearly 80 percent of voters supported an educational requirement.

1901: Miscegenation [Statute] The 1850 law prohibiting marriage between white persons and Negroes or mulattoes was amended, adding “Mongolian.”

1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Persons of Japanese descent were added to the list of undesirable marriage partners of white Californians as noted in the earlier 1880 statute.

1913: Property [Statute] Known as the “Alien Land Laws,” Asian immigrants were prohibited from owning or leasing property. The California Supreme Court struck down the Alien Land Laws in 1952.

1931: Miscegenation [State Code] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Broadened earlier miscegenation statute to also prohibit marriages between whites and Malays.

1945: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between whites and “Negroes, mulattos, Mongolians and Malays.”

1947: Miscegenation [Statute] Subjected U.S. servicemen and Japanese women who wanted to marry to rigorous background checks. Barred the marriage of Japanese women to white servicemen if they were employed in undesirable occupations.

Colorado

1864: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between Negroes and mulattoes, and white persons “absolutely void.” Penalty: Fine between $50 and $500, or imprisonment between three months and two years, or both.

1864-1908: [Statute] Passed three Jim Crow laws between 1864 and 1908, all concerning miscegenation. School segregation was barred in 1876, followed by ending segregation of public facilities in 1885. Four laws protecting civil liberties were passed between 1930 and 1957, when the anti-miscegenation statute was repealed.

1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between Negroes and mulattoes, and whites prohibited. Penalties: Punishable by imprisonment from three months to two years, or a fine of between $50 to $500, or both. Performing a marriage ceremony punishable by a fine of $50 to $500, or three months to two years’ imprisonment, or both.

1930: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor.

Connecticut

1879: Military [Statute] Authorized state to organize four independent companies of infantry of “colored men”. Companies were to receive same pay as other companies, including one company parade in the Spring and one in September.

1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited intermarriage between white persons and those persons having one-eighth or more Negro blood.

1925: Antidefamation [Statute] Prohibited motion picture theaters from showing any film which ridiculed the Negro race.

1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a felony.

1935: Education [Statute] Upheld school segregation as originally authorized by statute of 1869.

Florida

• “All marriages between a white person and a Negro, or between a white person and a person of Negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.”
• “Any Negro man and white woman, or any white man and Negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars.”
• “The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately.”

Georgia

• “All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license.”
• “It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.”

Idaho

Passed four laws prohibiting miscegenation and a statute that prevented Native Americans who had not severed their tribal relations from voting ^[5] An 1889 constitutional amendment barred segregation in Idaho schools. The miscegenation statute was repealed in 1959.

1867: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes or mulattoes.

1887: Miscegenation [Statute] A restatement of the law passed in 1867.

1889: Voter rights [Constitution] “Indians not taxed, who have not severed their tribal relations and adopted the habits of civilization” were excluded from voting.

1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage prohibited between Negroes and white persons. A marriage valid where consummated outside the state would be valid in Idaho.

1932: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

Illinois

1927: Housing [Municipal Code]

• Chicago adopted racially restrictive housing covenants beginning in 1927.^[6] In 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled that enforcement of racial restrictive covenants was unconstitutional.

1953: Housing In August 1953, the first black family moved into Trumbull Park, a formerly all-white project of the Chicago Housing Authority.

Indiana

Enacted seven Jim Crow laws in the areas of education and miscegenation between 1869 and 1952^[7] Persons who violated the miscegenation law could be imprisoned between one and ten years. The state barred school segregation in 1877, followed by a law giving equal access to public facilities in 1885.

1869: Education [Statute] Separate schools to be provided for black children. If not a sufficient number of students to organize a separate school, trustees were to find other means of educating black children.

1905: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation prohibited.

1952: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between whites and Negroes void.

1955: Adoption [Statute] Required that due regard be given to race on adoption petitions.

Kansas

1905: Education [Statute] Schools in Kansas City, Kansas, may organize and maintain separate schools for education of white and colored children, including high schools; “but no discrimination on account of color shall be made in high schools, except as provided herein.” ^[8]

Kentucky

1866: Miscegenation
This law prohibited whites from marrying any African American who is more than 12% African American (meaning having a blood relation up to the third generation to an African American). Penalty of not following this law was a felony that was punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary up to five years.

1866: Education
This gave all school district trustees the right to create separate schools for African American children.

1873: Education
It was unlawful for a black child to attend a white school, and vice versa. No separate colored school was allowed to be located within one mile of a separate white school. This law excluded schools in cities and towns but did not allow the schools in those areas within six hundred feet of the other.

1890: Railroads
All railway companies were required to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and colored passengers. Penalty to do so resulted in the passengers or conductors receiving a fine of $25 or imprisonment for 20 days. Any officers and directors of railway companies that fail to follow this law were found guilty of a misdemeanor and could be fined between $100 and $500. This law excluded streetcars.

1892: Railroads
Railroads were to provide separate coaches for white and colored passengers. Signs stating the race for each car must be posted. Penalty to do so was railway companies that failed could be fined from between $500 to $1,500. Any conductors who failed to enforce the law were to be fined from $50 to $100.

1893: Miscegenation
Any marriage between a white person and an African American or mixed citizen was prohibited.

1894: Railroads
Railroad stations must provide separate but equal waiting rooms for the white and colored passengers. A sign posting what race was in what room was to be seeable by everyone. Penalty to do so would end in a fine $25 or imprisoned up to 30 days. Any agents failing to enforce the law were found guilty of misdemeanor that was punishable by a fine of $25 to $50.

1894: Miscegenation
Any marriage between a person of color and a white person was prohibited.

1902: Streetcars
All streetcars must provide separate but equal accommodations to a passenger of any race. The failure to do so ended with such penalties as passengers or conductors could receive a fine of $25 or imprisonment up to 30 days. Any railway company that refused to follow could receive a fine of $100 or imprisonment between two and six months.

1904: Education
It was unlawful to maintain or operate any college, school, or institution where persons of the white and African American races are both allowed to attend. This law did not prohibit private schools or colleges from maintaining a segregated school in a different location for each race no less than 25 miles. The penalty for not following this law resulted in any violators receiving a $1,000 fine.

1908: Public Accommodation
It was unlawful for whites and blacks to purchase and consume alcohol on the same location. Penalty for this act was a misdemeanor punishable by a fine from $50 to $500 or an imprisonment in the parish prison or jail up to two years.

1908: Miscegenation
Cohabitation of a white person and an African American without legal marriage is a felony. Penalty for committing such an act resulted in imprisonment from one month to one year, with or without hard labor.

1909: Health Care
An institution for the education of colored deaf mutes was to be established. But segregation in this school was to still be enforced.

1912: Residential
Building permits for building Negro houses in white communities, or any portion of a community inhabited principally by white people, and vice versa prohibited. Penalty: violators fined from $50 to $2,000, “and the municipality shall have the right to cause said building to be removed and destroyed.”

1914: Public Accommodation
All circuses, shows and tent exhibitions were required to provide two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers and two entrances to the performance for each race.

1915: Education
No white children were allowed to attend any graded common school for colored children and vice versa.

1918: Prisons
This law allowed the segregation of races in all municipal, parish, and state prisons.

1921: Education
This law called for separate public schools for the education of white and black children between the ages of six and eighteen.

1921: Housing
This prohibited African American and white families from living in the same home.

1928: Education
This gave separate textbooks for white and African American school children.

1928: Public Carrier
Separate but equal accommodations were required to be provided on all forms of public transportation.

1932: Residential
No person or businesses were allowed to rent an apartment in an apartment complex or other housing buildings to a person who differs in race from the other occupants.

1932: Miscegenation
All interracial marriages were outlawed. Invalidated interracial marriages if the parties went to another legal power where such marriages were legal. Marriages between African Americans and Native Americans were also prohibited.

1933: Public Accommodations
Establishment of segregated libraries for different races was authorized.

1934: Education
All schools were required to be racially segregated.

1942: Health Care
There were to be separate but equal accommodations for whites and African Americans provided in nursing homes.

1944: Miscegenation
Any marriage between a white person and an African American or racially mixed citizen was prohibited. Penalty to follow this law was a fine of $500 to $5,000. If the people continued to be interracially married the result would be imprisonment in prison from three to twelve months.

1944: Railroads
Separate coaches for white and African American passengers were required.

1948: Barred School Segregation
This law did not allow African American physicians and nurses to take postgraduate courses in public hospitals and Louisville.

1950: Barred School Segregation
African Americans were allowed to attend colleges and universities under two conditions. These conditions are that if comparable courses were not available at Kentucky’s African American College in Frankfort, KY and the school’s governing body had to approve of this act.

1951: Miscegenation
Any intimate relation between whites and African Americans was illegal. Failure to follow this law ended in fines up to $1,000, up to five years in prison, or both.

1951: Adoption
Interracial adoptions were banned.

1952: Miscegenation
Interracial marriages were prohibited. Penalty of failing to follow this law was Up to $1,000 and/or five years in prison.

1953: Health Care
It was required to establish separate tuberculosis hospitals for each race. This law was then repealed in 1954.

1956: Public Carriers
This law revised older laws that required common carriers to provide separate waiting rooms for white intrastate passengers and for African American intrastate passengers.

1956: Employment
Provided that all persons, firms, or corporations create separate bathroom facilities for members of the white and African American races employed by them or allowed to come into the business. In addition, separate rooms to eat in as well as separate eating and drinking utensils were required to be provided for members of the white and African American races. Not following this law gave to offender a misdemeanor, a fine of $100 to $1,000, or 60 days to one year in prison.

1956: Recreation
All businesses were prohibited from permitting any dancing, social functions, entertainments, athletic training, games, sports or contests on their premises in which the participants are members of the white and African American races.

1956: Public Accommodations
All public parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, etc. were required to be segregated.

1956: Public Carrier
All forms of public transportation were to be segregated.

1957: Education
All public schools were required to be racially segregated.

1957: Education
There were to be no state funds to non-segregated schools.

1960: Voting Rights
The races of all candidates were to be written on the ballots.^[9]

Louisiana

• “Any person who shall rent any part of any such building to a Negro person or a Negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a Negro person or Negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Maine

1795 law prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks repealed.

1893: Voter rights [Constitution] Required the elector to be able to read the Constitution in English and write his name.

1893: Voting [State Code] A Constitutional amendment was passed in 1893 requiring electors to be able to read the Constitution in English and write his name.

Maryland

• “All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers.”

Mississippi

• “Any person…who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and Negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine not exceeding five thousand (5,000.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both.”

Missouri

• “Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.”

Montana

Four Jim Crow laws were enacted in Montana between 1871 and 1921. The school segregation act was repealed in 1895. A 1909 miscegenation law prohibited marriage between Caucasians and blacks as well as Chinese and Japanese.

1871: Education [Statute] Children of African descent would be provided separate schools.

1897: Voting rights [Statute] Excluded “any person living on an Indian or military reservation” from residency, unless that person had acquired a residence in a county of the state and is in the employment of the government while living on a reservation. Without residency, a person could not vote.

1897: Residency [Statute] An 1897 statute excluded “any person living on an Indian or military reservation” from residency, unless that person had acquired a residence in a county of MT and is in the employ of the government while living on a reservation.”

1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited intermarriage between whites and Negroes, Chinese and Japanese. Penalty: Misdemeanor, carrying a fine of $500 or imprisonment of one month, or both.

1921: Miscegenation [State Code] Miscegenation prohibited. Nullified interracial marriages if parties went to another jurisdiction where legal. Also prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

Nebraska

1865: Miscegenation [Statute] Declared marriage between whites and a Negro or mulatto as illegal. Penalty: Misdemeanor, with a fine up to $100, or imprisonment in the county jail up to six months, or both.

1911: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriages between a white and colored person declared illegal. Also noted that marriages between whites and those persons with one-quarter or more Negro blood were void.

1929: Miscegenation [Statute] Forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian race and those persons with one eighth or more Asian blood.

1943: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage of whites with anyone with one-eighth or more Negro, Japanese or Chinese blood.

Nevada’s laws… Enacted four miscegenation laws and a school segregation statute between 1865 and 1957. The education statute declared that blacks, Asians and Indians were prohibited from attending public schools, and that a separate school would be established for them if “deemed advisable.” The state’s miscegenation law offered an extensive list of inappropriate marriage candidates by race and color for Caucasians, including blacks, “Malay or brown race, Mongolian or yellow race, or Indian or red race.” The miscegenation statute was repealed in 1959.

1865: Education [Statute] Negroes, Asians, and Indians prohibited from attending public schools. The Board of Trustees of any district could establish a separate school for educating Negroes, Asians, and Indians, if deemed advisable.

1912: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for a white person to intermarry with any person of “Ethiopian or black race, Malay or brown race, Mongolian or yellow race, or Indian or red race, within the State.” Penalty: Misdemeanor for participants and the minister who performs such a ceremony. White persons found to be living with the above mentioned groups would be fined between $100 and $500, or confined in the county jail from six months to one year, or both.

1929: Miscegenaion [Statute] Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor. Also forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.

1955: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation illegal. Penalty: $500 to $1,000 and/or six months to one year imprisonment.

1957: Miscegenation [Statute] Gross misdemeanor for white to marry person of black, brown, or yellow race.

New Mexico

• “Separate rooms [shall] be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and [when] said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent.”

North Carolina

• “Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.”
• “The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals.”

North Dakota

The state passed three Jim Crow laws. A 1943 statute barring miscegenation was repealed in 1955. An 1899 Constitutional amendment gave the legislature authority to implement educational qualificaitons for electors.

1933: Education [Statute] Law stated that “it would not be expeident to have the Indian children mingle with the white children in our educational institutions by reason of the vastly different temperament and mode of living and other differences and difficulties of the two races.

1943: Miscegenation [State Code] Cohabitation between blacks and whites prohibited. Penalty: 30 days to one year imprisonment, or $100 to $500 fine.

Ohio

Enacted a miscegenation statute in 1877 and a school segregation law in 1878. Segregation of public facilities was barred in 1884, and the earlier miscegenation and school segregation laws were overturned in 1887. However, in 1953, the state enacted a law requiring that race be considered in adoption decisions.

1877: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for a person of “pure white blood, who intermarries, or has illicit carnal intercourse, with any Negro or person having a distinct and visible admixture of African blood.” Penalty: Fined up to $100, or imprisoned up to three months, or both. Any person who knowingly officiates such a marriage charged with misdemeanor and fined up to $100 or imprisoned in three months, or both.

1878: Education [Statute] School districts given discretion to organize separate schools for colored children if “in their judgment it may be for the advantage of the district to do so.”

1953: Adoption [Statute] Race to be taken into account on adoption petitions.

Buses were separated e.g.: One for white and one for Coloured

Oklahoma

1903: Mining-bath facilities [Statute] “The baths and lockers for the Negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building.” (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

1904: Education-Teaching [Statute] “Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.” (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

1907: Voting [Constitution] In 1907, an amendment passed requiring electors to read and write any section of the state constitution. Exempted were those who were enfranchised on Jan. 1, 1866, and lineal descendants of such persons. (Declared unconstitutional in 1915; however, the provision for literacy was upheld.) NOTE: The Amendment allowed Persons of Indian descent to vote.

1907: Funerals [Statute] Blacks were not allowed to use the same hearse as whites.

1908: Voting [State Code] In 1907, inmates of institutions were excluded from voting. “Any person kept in a poorhouse at public expense, except federal, Confederate, and Spanish-American ex-soldiers or sailors.”

1928: Recreation—Fishing, Boating, and Bathing [Statute] “The [Conservation] Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing, boating and bathing.” (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

1937: Telephone Booths [Statute] “The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to require telephone companies…to maintain separate booths for white and colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That the Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said separate booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and vicinity to be served after due hearing as now provided by law in other complaints filed with the Corporation Commission.” (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

Oregon

Enacted two miscegenation laws in 1867 and 1930 prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks, Chinese, Kanakas or any person having more than one half Indian blood. A 1953 statute required that adoption petitions note the race of prospective adopting parents. A 1924 statute required electors to read the Constitution in English.

1867: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for any white person to intermarry with any “Negro, Chinese, or any person having one-quarter or more Negro, Chinese or kanaka blood, or any person having more than one-half Indian blood.” Penalty: Imprisonment in the penitentiary or the county jail for between three months and one year. Those who licensed or performed such a ceremony could be jailed for three months to one year, or fined between $100 and $1,000.

1924: Voting rights [State Code] Required electors to read the Constitution in English and write their name.

1924: Voting [Statute] Statute and constitutional amendment passed in 1924 required electors to read the constitution in English and write their name.

1930: Miscegenation [State Code] Miscegenation declared a felony. Also forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian race and those persons with one fourth or more Chinese or Kanaka blood.

1953: Adoption [Statute] Adoption petition must state race or color of adopting parents.

Pennsylvania

1869: Education [Statute] Black children prohibited from attending Pittsburgh schools.

1956: Adoption [Statute] Petition must state race or color of adopting parents.

Rhode Island

1872: Miscegenation [State Code] Prohibited intermarriage. Penalty: $1,000 fine, or up to six months’ imprisonment.

1960: Voting [Statute] Not until 1928 did Rhode Island permit men and women who did not own property to vote in city elections.

South Carolina

• “No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter.”
• “It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right ofguardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro.”

South Dakota

Enacted three miscegenation laws between 1809 and 1913, and a 1952 statute that required adoption petitions to state the race of both the petitioner and child. A 1913 miscegenation law broadened the list of races unacceptable as marriage partners for whites to include persons belonging to the “African, Korean, Malayan, or Mongolian race.” This law reflected the nation’s growing tension over the massive waves of immigrants entering the country during the early twentieth century. The miscegenation law was repealed in 1957.

1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage or illicit cohabitation forbidden between blacks and whites. Penalty: Felony, punishable by a fine up to $1,000, or by imprisonment up to ten years, or both.

1913: Miscegenation [Statute] Law expanded to prohibit marriage between whites and persons belonging to the “African, Corean, [Korean] Malayan, or Mongolian race.” Penalty: Felony, punishable by a fine up to $1,000, or by imprisonment in state prison up to ten years, or both.

1929: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a felony. Also forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.

1952: Adoption [State Code] Adoption petitions must state race of petitioner and child.

Texas

Twenty-seven Jim Crow laws were passed in Texas from 1866 to 1958. In addition to segregation involving blacks, persons of Mexican descent were also subject to segregation laws. Some examples include:

• 1950: Separate facilities required for white and black citizens in state parks
• 1953: Public carriers to be segregated
• 1958: No child compelled to attend schools that are racially mixed. No desegregation unless approved by election. Governor may close schools where troops used on federal authority.

Utah

Four miscegenation laws were passed in Utah between 1888 and 1953, prohibiting intermarriage between whites and those of African or Asian descent. School segregation was barred in 1895. The state’s miscegenation law was repealed in 1963.

1888: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage prohibited between a Negro and a white person, and between a “Mongolian” and a white person.

1907: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage laws amended, with earlier intermarriage provision remaining the same.

1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

1953: Miscegenation [State Code] Marriage between “white and Negro, Malayan, mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon void.”

Virginia

• “Every person… operating… any public hall, theater, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate… certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons.”
• “The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith, shall be the sole judges of his race.”

Washington

Enacted a miscegenation statute in 1866 forbidding marriage between whites and Negroes or Indians. This law was repealed in 1887.

Six civil rights laws barring segregation were passed between 1890 and 1956.

1866: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes, Indians, or a person of half or more Negro or Indian blood.

1887: Barred anti-miscegenation [Statute] Repealed anti-miscegenation law.

1896: Voting rights [Constitution] “Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise.”

1896: Voting [Constitution] A constitutional amendment passed in 1896 requiring electors to read and speak English. In 1912 a statute was passed noting, “If naturalized, must furnish satisfactory evidence that he is capable of reading and speaking the English language so as to comprehend the meaning of ordinary English prose.”

1920: Restrictive Housing Covenants [Municipal Code] Beginning in the 1920s, Seattle realtors frequently discriminated against minorities. In November 1927 the Capitol Hill development used a covenant that read: “The parties…agree each with the others that no part of the lands owned by them shall ever be used or occupied by or sold, conveyed, leased, rented or given to Negroes or any person of Negro blood.” An April 1928 covenant for the Broadmoor subdivision read: “No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race…”

Until 1950, Article 34 of the Code of Ethics for realtors in Seattle included the following clause: “A Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality, or any individual whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood.” Voluntary agreements between realtors and homeowners continued well into the 1960s.

In 1964, Seattle voters rejected a referendum that prohibited housing discrimination. In April 1968, the city council passed an open housing ordinance, making restrictive covenants illegal.

West Virginia

“White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school.” This point-blank requirement for segregated schools was proclaimed in West Virginia’s State Constitution as Article XII Section 8. In a remarkable show of the persistence of such attitudes extending to the highest levels of state government, numerous attempts to remove this from the constitution were defeated in the state legislature until it was finally repealed in November 1994.

Wyoming

“All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.”

1887: Education [Statute] Separate schools could be provided for colored children when there were fifteen or more colored children within any school district.

1889: Voting rights [Constitution] Required electors to read the state Constitution.

1908: Intermarriage [Statute] All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void. (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

1931: Education [Statute] Schools to be segregated only when fifteen or more colored children were in a district.

1931: Miscegenation [Statute] Declared miscegenation a misdemeanor. Also prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.

1945: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage of whites to Negroes, mulattoes, Mongolians, Malayans void. Penalty: $100 to $1,000 and/or one to five years imprisonment.

The Willie Lynch Letter

Would like to thank Lori Carter owner of Smiley’s Books and Juice-C- Juice in Carson, for posting this on her Facebook page.

Greetings, Gentlemen. I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest, and still the oldest, methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “AGE,” but it’s there only because it starts with an “a.” The second is “COLOR” or shade. There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDEof owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don’t forget, you must pitch the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity.IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen.”

LET’S MAKE A SLAVE

It was the interest and business of slave holders to study human nature, and the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results. I and many of them attained astonishing proficiency in this direction. They had to deal not with earth, wood and stone, but with men and, by every regard, they had for their own safety and prosperity they needed to know the material on which they were to work, conscious of the injustice and wrong they were every hour perpetuating and knowing what they themselves would do. Were they the victims of such wrongs? They were constantly looking for the first signs of the dreaded retribution. They watched therefore with skilled and practiced eyes, and learned to read with great accuracy, the state of mind and heart of the slave, through his sable face. Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion and inquiry. Frederick Douglas LET’S MAKE A SLAVE is a study of the scientific process of man-breaking and slave-making. It describes the rationale and results of the Anglo Saxons’ ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. LET’S MAKE A SLAVE “The Original and Development of a Social Being Called ‘The Negro.’” Let us make a slave. What do we need? First of all, we need a black nigger man, a pregnant nigger woman and her baby nigger boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining factors. What we do with horses is that we break them from one form of life to another; that is, we reduce them from their natural state in nature. Whereas nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their offspring, we break that natural string of independence from them and thereby create a dependency status, so that we may be able to get from them useful production for our business and pleasure.

CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING A NEGRO

For fear that our future generations may not understand the principles of breaking both of the beast together, the nigger and the horse. We understand that short range planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breadth and depth in long range comprehensive planning, articulating both skill sharp perceptions. We lay down the following principles for long range comprehensive economic planning. Both horse and niggers [are] no good to the economy in the wild or natural state. Both must be BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production. For orderly future, special and particular attention must be paid to the FEMALE and the YOUNGEST offspring. Both must beCROSSBRED to produce a variety and division of labor. Both must be taught to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological and physical instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the six cardinal principles as truth to be self-evident, based upon following the discourse concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and the nigger together, all inclusive of the six principles laid down above. NOTE: Neither principle alone will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed for orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a wild or natur[al] nigger is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom and, in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot rest. They sleep while you are awake, and are awake while you are asleep. They are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too much labor to watch them away from the house. Above all, you cannot get them to work in this natural state. Hence, both the horse and the nigger must be broken; that is breaking them from one form of mental life to another.KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE MIND! In other words, break the will to resist. Now the breaking process is the same for both the horse and the nigger, only slightly varying in degrees. But, as we said before, there is an art in long range economic planning. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the nigger. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key to sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation of original breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break the FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of development; and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you, for her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking process. For example, take the case of the wild stud horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two captured nigger males in their natural state, a pregnant nigger woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle, whereas you or anybody can ride her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have the desired offspring. Then, you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse whereby she will eat out of your hand, and she will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your hand, also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized nigger, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, the female, and the nigger infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males to the point of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don’t kill him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, for he can be useful for future breeding.

THE BREAKING PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN

Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to your desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bullwhip on her to extract that last bit of [b—-] out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her offsprings in the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking process of the female nigger. We have reversed the relationship; in her natural uncivilized state, she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized nigger male, and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent male offspring and would raise male offsprings to be dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized nigger apart and bullwhipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her MALEand female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her FEMALE offsprings to be psychologically independent. What have you got? You’ve got the nigger WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE nigger MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard at all times. Now, we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands guard for us. He cannot get past her early slave-molding process. He is a good tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a nigger boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage niggers, by throwing the nigger female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the nigger male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean by example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and examine them close.

THE NEGRO MARRIAGE

We breed two nigger males with two nigger females. Then, we take the nigger male away from them and keep them moving and working. Say one nigger female bears a nigger female and the other bears a nigger male; both nigger females—being without influence of the nigger male image, frozen with a independent psychology—will raise their offspring into reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will teach her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate with her, through her, by her, negotiates her at will). The one with the nigger male offspring, she being frozen subconscious fear for his life, will raise him to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically strong; in other words, body over mind. Now, in a few years when these two offsprings become fertile for early reproduction, we will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. That is good, sound and long range comprehensive planning.

WARNING: POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES

Earlier, we talked about the non-economic good of the horse and the nigger in their wild or natural state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying them together for orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about paying particular attention to the female savage and her offspring for orderly future planning, then more recently we stated that, by reversing the positions of the male and female savages, we created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever unless a phenomenon occurred and reshifts positions of the male and female savages. Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base; and they advised us that the best way to deal with the phenomenon is to shave off the brute’s mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum. This creation of multiplicity of phenomena of illusions entails the principle of crossbreeding the nigger and the horse as we stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified division of labor; thereby creating different levels of labor and different values of illusion at each connecting level of labor. The results of which is the severance of the points of original beginnings for each sphere illusion. Since we feel that the subject matter may get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan concerning the purpose, reason and effect of crossbreeding horses and niggers, we shall lay down the following definition terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given path. Axis means upon which or around which a body turns. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and inspires awe and wonder. Multiplicity means a great number. Means a globe. Crossbreeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding it with an ass and you get a dumb, backward, ass long-headed mule that is not reproductive nor productive by itself. Crossbreeding niggers mean taking so many drops of good white blood and putting them into as many nigger women as possible, varying the drops by the various tone that you want, and then letting them breed with each other until another circle of color appears as you desire. What this means is this: Put the niggers and the horse in a breeding pot, mix some asses and some good white blood and what do you get? You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual niggers, running, tied to backward ass long-headed mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying, we keep the nigger constant for we may replace the mules for another tool) both mule and nigger tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor without each other.

CONTROLLED LANGUAGE

Crossbreeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning, WE MUST COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of both the new nigger and the new mule, and institute a new language that involves the new life’s work of both. You know language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society. Therefore, if the foreigner is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, if you take a slave, if you teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can’t fool him any longer, and BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF ANY INCIDENTS TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example, if you told a slave that he must perform in getting out “our crops” and he knows the language well, he would know that “our crops” didn’t mean “our crops” and the slavery system would break down, for he would relate on the basis of what “our crops” really meant. So you have to be careful in setting up the new language; for the slaves would soon be in your house, talking to you as “man to man” and that is death to our economic system. In addition, the definitions of words or terms are only a minute part of the process. Values are created and transported by communication through the body of the language. A total society has many interconnected value systems. All the values in the society have bridges of language to connect them for orderly working in the society. But for these language bridges, these many value systems would sharply clash and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the conflict being determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing strength in whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in a hog pen and train him to live there and incorporate in him to value it as a way of life completely, the biggest problem you would have out of him is that he would worry you about provisions to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a slip and incorporate something in his language whereby he comes to value a house more than he does his hog pen, you got a problem. He will soon be in your house. 

Scary to know that letters like these will not be found in history books but do actually exist. Slavery is seldom looked at as an institution but more of a mythical dark cloud that hovered over the Southern States. The most astonishing thing about this letter, which was written over 300 years ago, is that this letter is still relevant and alive today, even though, this is a time in American history that many would love to forget and pass off as an anomaly. When in reality it was a well thought out, planned, organized and enforced practice that lasted for over 400 years in this great country. With the abolition of slavery many think slaves were then set free. But, it actual continued for years until slave owners were forced to inform their slaves they were free to leave. Thus the beginning of sharecropping, segregation, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movements that followed.  The argument can be made that the philosophy has been modified into a class system.

In future posts I will explore this theory in deeper debt, giving eyewitness quotes from other books I’ve read. My goal is to educate those about the truth and what really happened.

Racially Speaking

So it’s funny to see all these poor (helpless) young Hispanic or Latin women with 2-3 kids waiting on the bus stop. All of the children are under 5 and she looks no older than 20. Trying to get all the babies on the bus with one hand and stroller in the other. It’s never any guy in tow, just mom. Since when did recession equal a baby boom? Diapers are expensive and have to be bought with wipes. Not to mention the formula, bottles, liners and bottled water. All in the name of providing for a little one. Saying welfare is too simple, especially knowing how many companies hire illegals for cheap labor. Oh and did I mention these girls “speakee no english.”

Nobody has jobs but the freeways are packed to capacity every single day. Where are people going during the day from 6am to 7pm, school? They are cutting back too so that’s not the answer. Work, but nobody has jobs. Maybe Home Depot to sit outside and wait for work, but have you noticed it’s less and less of them by the day. This mystery remains unsolved. Next time your on a crowded freeway take a mental picture. Most of the cars are being driven by Hispanics or Latins. Where the heck are they going and/or coming from. Better yet where did they get their licenses from.

So can we use Blackaphobia since no one wants anything to do with Blacks. LOL. I mean seriously, employers shun US, parents have nightmares about US, White woman still clutch their purses in the presence of US, colleges would rather give a seat to non-English speakers than US and the police profile US as criminals no matter what we are wearing or driving. Oh and did I add that Bush hates US.

Do they tell White people they are “articulate” in interviews? Or say “wow you worked their for 4 years, hhmmm.” Why do random White guys come up to me laughing asking if they can bum weed off me. Then look real shocked that I don’t toke. Is smoking marijuana a Black thing. I can see if he asked me if I could pick some. LOL.

So I once applied at a restaurant in Chino Hills as a server or bartender and the guy instantly went into, “No, but I do need a big Black guy to hold things down at night.” I should have told him I was not gay, but I needed the job. LOL.

What’s wrong with Black people? A guy comes in for a membership at Ballys. They ask me to close the sale in order to reel the guy in. He says “I really want to do it my NIGGA…,” WHAT! First I’m at work, second I don’t know you like that, third this is a place of business where white people kept passing by looking at ME like I was crazy. On another occasion I go out to eat and the Blacks are referring to everyone and I mean everyone (all races) as “MY NIGGA.” Who started that dumb trend? Willie Dynamite, LOL for real he did in a Blackploitation movie, but I’m pretty sure they have yet to see it.

Why don’t Orange County Blacks nod back when I give them the nod. LOL. You know OUR NOD. They act like they are ashamed or upset another Brotha walked into the room. Didn’t know they owned territorial rights over that venue. Then they really get pissed when they find out I’M FROM COMPTON. But is baffled when I speak the Kings English just like the White folks.

When are Black people going to stop putting dumb stuff on their bodies. Tattoos should be art not stereotypical. Dead beat baby daddies name with a panther on top looks like dead beat baby daddies name with a panther on top. ROTFLOL. Get your money back the artist lied and robbed you. Who cares who’s cherry it is. Oh yeah your new boy friend. Stop lying to yourself dude your not a killer regardless of how many tears you got. Oh and you got that ink in the pen from being someones B. You ain’t shanked no body.

What’s wrong with all these dudes acting so hard. Like they wear a one letter symbol and tights. Prison is prison and not county. Futhermore, a DUI is not a gangster sentence, stop acting hard. Gun charges is not murder, it just means when you got pulled over a gun was illegally being carried in the car. Public nudity is a sex crime aka pedophile rap and it is not worth it. Wait till you get home to piss or find a Denny’s. Better yet wear a diaper like 2 yr old.

Last but not least, just because a dude is gay don’t mean he’s not a killer. Where the heck do you think he got his first piece of tail from. Just because he look weak doesn’t mean your going to just whoop his tail. Oscar De La Hoya may look pretty but he’ll knock you out! Black man does not mean I’ll whoop a White’s tail. MMA is real and fully of White’s with degrees. LOL.

I will say this 100% of this blog has happened and is are real life scenarios. FYI I can care less what race a person is as long as they have love in their heart, then they are all good with me. That does not mean I won’t get racial on them though.

Gay Marriage

OK this is the skinny on a untouchable subject. I don’t support it but if gays want to marry who am I to say they can’t. This country was set up for people with differences of opinion, beliefs, races, creeds and sexual orientation.

Abraham Lincoln said it best in his Gettysburg Address, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

With that said to say this is a black or white issue is a deception. Many Conservative and Liberals want to preach separation of religion and state (government). Yet for some reason pull the gloves off when it comes to gays and abortions. Instead of allow the voting process to do what it was meant to do they would rather force there will onto others.

If the argument against it were true then they would stiffen the divorce laws. Make it a true process to get married. Force individuals to uphold their wedding vows. Oh but wait the lawmakers, religious and politicians are the main offenders why would they do that! And coincidentally they are the ones that abhor the idea the most. I’m convinced the whole issue is a hustle to agitate churches and advocacy groups and to get more money through lobbying.

I know what some of you are thinking… “that’s not very Christian like,” but even Jesus said let he that is without sin throw the first stone. And what the average church goer does not see is the details that these laws are filled with. They load other clauses and interesting language to further their ideologies. It’s not just a cut and dry piece of legislature, OH NO! The devil is always in the details.

Now what I don’t like is the government forcing churches to marry gays. Christian beliefs dictate what the church declares what is morally right and wrong. To force them to marry gays go against those beliefs and is ludicrous to say the least.

And to compare gays to blacks is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. They have and never will be look at in the same way. LOL Tangent alert.

Now this is just my interpretation of the issue AS YOU WERE AMERICANS.

I’ve Been Wondering

Lol. People have wondered where I’ve been the last year or so. At home taking care of my two kids. Working on my marriage. Being the best man that I can be despite all of my shortcomings and bad life choices. Wondering why almost 20% of the country is unemployed and no ones really hiring. Yet we still find time to call the unemployed slackers or what ever else. In disbelief that employers really on emails and Facebook to determine who to hire but get upset when employees use the same method to quite.

Do people really still believe that gangster rappers are real gangsters, let alone rappers. If you read what other people writes does that constitute you are an rapper. Or maybe a recitest Lol. Or better yet a singer that does not sing should be considered an ACTOR or autotunist.

After all these years do women really think dressing like an whore will get them a ring. Why do dudes marry whores in the first place, then get upset when they cheat. Why do men think that sleeping with whores won’t catch up with them sooner or later.

Trying to figure out why rappers hate bootleggers when they did it to get where they are at now. Can anyone explain to me why rappers still grab their crotches. How many years does it take for them to evolve into real people. Why do celebrities do something get caught by the media then say it didn’t happen. Just to come clean a few months later when the crap hits the fan. Lol.

By the way if I call you stupid or any other bad names on my blog it’s not because I don’t like you. It’s because I believe it. Just the Truth. While I’ve been sitting here wondering what the HELL is wrong with you people I’m not afraid to admit I have problems of my own. Can’t say the same for you though, get with the program.

MONEY DOES NOT EXIST

Another blog by myself that is pretty self explanatory to those in the “know.”  Believe it or not we still barter in pretty much the same way that our ancestors did it.  In our time it is just more centralized based on a countries financial standing.

A dollar is the same denare of times past or shekel of biblical times or plain sea shell during more primitive eras.  Once you come to that reality you can understand the deeper meaning of what money is.  It is nothing more than a very popular an instantly liquid promissory note.

Now this blog can end here but that would not be consistent to how I do things so let me expound on what I have seen (LOL Songs of Solomon reference).

Money is mildly different from any other promissory note like homes, cars or anything else similar.  The variance is the speed of the escrow that comes with the others or the transfer of value.  With the others you have to verify the authenticity of ownership outright where money is “finders keepers losers weepers.”

This is the reason that so many get lost in the phenomenon of inflation and depreciation of the value of money.  It also keeps us from understanding how banks and other similar institutions function on a global scale.  They turn money into a commodity much like homes and not stock.

CAN’T SEE THE MONEY IF YOUR BLIND

Life is an uphill battle both physically and mentally, many of us lose the battle before the fight is ever underway.  It amazes me how Americans are not taught any school how to survive in the real world.  Meaning that there are no job application classes in High School or conflict resolution or anything else needed to make an honest living in the job market.

They tell you to study Algebra and Trigonometry or write multiple pages of dribble on essays.  Some offer business classes that study antiquated case studies that place businesses into a microscope and fail to address real world scenarios.  Things like the allocation of stocks for an S or C corporation, even why and how to utilize effectively both types of stock allocations.  Many business owners began only knowing the use of the fiduciary stocks and not the true power or voting stocks.  Hostile takeovers begin the day that you sign your Articles of Corporation not when some wealthy company walks in and strips your baby out of your hands.

Making money is the goal of every business but it is the last course you usually will take.  They want to teach you the history of a business sector that you have researched extensively for several years then tell you how operations work only to get into the real world and find out something different.

I remember taking my Real Estate and Insurance exams and finding out how the laws were derived and who set up the first legal documents.  But the actual negotiation part of the jobs where you make the money is totally left out.  How do you get the consumer to say yes I want to buy from or work with your company and I will pay top dollar.

Then they charge you half a quarter of a million dollars and you can’t make the money needed to pay off student loans.  One thing for sure I thank God for the hood and all my old friends that taught me how to hustle and make money “do what it do.”

I would venture to say that 90% of all failing businesses have forgotten how to make money.  Meaning that we are not printing less money, instead we have printed more yet many cannot find a way to be profitable.  If you can’t see the money it is for certain that you cannot make it.  So use your other senses like the rat and find the cheese that they have moved.

ANOTHER CRAPPY BLOGGER

Let me start by saying this is a factual statement and not my opinion.

No apologies will be made on this one, LOL, seeing that most of the top bloggers have no business giving expert opinion on what they have become popular for.  Just because you buy something as a consumer does not make you an expert.  That is in music, tech, business, sex, psychology or whatever else it is that many have delved into.  There is almost a sense of backwardness that the actual experts are on the comments arguing their points of views, which by the way are fact driven and not just some rant about personal feelings.

Now I do not profess to be the smartest man in the world but some of things that I have read on bloggish articles and dictionaries are appalling.  To think that mainstream America has embraced these blogs as expert commentary.

Just because you understand SEO and tag lines you have become the expert at what is and what is not the best product on the market.  The reasoning behind it is not even concrete.  Can they even tell the difference between a real or fake.  Probably not but they can install some software that drives hits to their sites.  To think that this is the direction that even the press has embraced, telling watered down and emotional stories that lead to speculation instead of truth.

At least I state that my blogs are opinion but when I do delve into some expertise of mine I will reference what makes my point of view valid.  Note I did not say expert, you are judge an expert by peers and not self affirmation.

What does a 16 year old know about anything of great substance anyway?  Not to say there aren’t any exceptions to the rules but this is the going trend of the day.  I’ve read articles (blogs) about how to make money doing something that the writer has not done but knows someone who shared a testimonial with them.  We all have read articles (blogs) on industry standards from a person that has just got into the business that they have become an expert in overnight.  Then we wonder why it does not work for us.

Business used to be about finding the winning formula.  You start with A then you move to B, follow the letters all the way down to Z then you become the master of your trade.  Once you’ve mastered a thing you mentor and duplicate your formula.  When you are tired and grey you sit down and write a book to share what you know and love to others that may be struggle or in need of direction.  Now industries are ran by novices who have studied books on subject matter with no job experience and we ignorantly buy them and make them rich.

Were I come from young people are told to be quiet and wait their turn to speak.  Now-a-days it is the other way around.  The wisdom has left the building and given way to pure speculation.

CORPORATE AMERICAN HATE OF URBAN MARKETS

After working the corporate structure for so many years 20 to be exact, I know one thing for certain.  To think of the urban areas as an uneducated group is to underestimate the level of disrespect that they truly have for their urban supporters.  “Supporters” is a very appropriate word to use seeing that even through recessionary times the “hood” has been a big consumer.

I used to complain about the Asian business owner that took over our favorite eatery or that sells product at the Swap Malls.  After being in retail since ’93 off and on one thing that I am certain of is that the Asians are more respectful than they ever have shown themselves to be.

Who else would come on national TV and say that they did not make their products to be consumed so heavily by urban “Blacks” (Timberland, Cristal, and Tommy Hilfiger).  The saddest fact is that we still wear and consume these products at high rates and have for 20 years or more.  Do we really want respect in the hood or do we just want to wear what they wear (rich whites).

Let’s get this straight I’ve been a buyer’s assistant for high end fashion companies where I was the person dealing with the designers, sales reps, warehouses and retail stores.  The buy just reviewed the product, chose, then handed the spread sheet to me to do the rest.  Then I moved on to helping others open there own retail stores in different area.  I’ve been in meetings where things have been distastefully discussed about the thought of product reaching areas considered “ghetto.”  The thought of working with Blacks initially drew some concerns but after finding out that we were all corporate trained many of the vendors would be at ease.  They found that we actually had a better overall knowledge of the business and no desire to serve the “hood” since we were opening stores in the Inland Empire or West Side of L.A.

Many of them began asking us business related questions on their product asking for feedback.  This was in 2004 and we still get calls from vendors to open another store since we closed the first one due to personal disagreements (watch who you go into business with).

Now let’s address the issue of dealing with business relations in the inner city, let me just say that it has been some of the worst business experiences in my life.  Not to say that many of them I did not see coming but the idea that the owner would take pay roll to Vegas and trick it off was beyond me.  Then you watch the “white people’s ice is colder than blacks” syndrome, I would tell them one thing and they would ask the same question to someone white and go with them.  After time they would call me back to fix a problem that I had warned them about in the beginning and to their surprise the person that they went to had no idea what they were talking about.  Did I help at first but after a few years I learned to say “I’m so sorry but what’s done is done.”

Another problem with the “Urban Retailer” is that many of them open businesses after failing to transition into good employees.  Some feel that their ability to shop will help them forecast trends 6 months in advance.  Just because you think this shirt should be over there with these pants do not mean that your visual presentation is correct.  The floor has to flow like one unit transitioning from section to section.  Then setting up manikins is a whole other dilemma that they have no prior experience dealing with and do not understand the need to layer for visual effects not practicality.  Visual effects often time is the difference between companies getting a vendor or not 90% of the time.

The last issue I want to delve into with this blog (another will follow about some other major issues) addresses, credit checks are a routine determinant in who gets consignment and who does not.  How is this different than getting anything else in life, but what many don’t realize is the rep has the ability to then give you options.  These options will include lines that need products moved or overflow (lates) that the need to sell to meet numbers.  Just because you want Baby Phat does not mean you get Baby Phat today, shortsightedness can kill your business before it starts.  Get a alternative product that visually is appealing with the quality (usually it has a higher grade) that the brand you want has.

The key to starting any business is starting.  Many business owners try too hard to make profit before they actually open their doors.  Basically destroying their business before they even start it, think of it this way, your dept margins will be far higher than the time period you have before your capital reserves are gone.  Don’t forget this is cash in carry even if you use credit now you must consider high interest rates and overhead.