Posted 9:47 AM by Gene

WEBB FOR SENATE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!!

Why can't somebody look into the history of the sainted GRAHAMS, or ST. WARREN, and find some MACACAS in THEIR pasts? I wonder -- how did the WaPosties respond to, say, Plessy v. Ferguson -- or did they?

They didn't -- all these battlers for truth and justice ran was a 255-word piece on a "SEPARATE COACH LAW" -- on PAGE 6. Heck, sainted GRAHAMS, even the lone dissenter Justice Harlan called the decision INFAMOUS:

In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case. It was adjudged in that case that the descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold as slaves were not included nor intended to be included under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and could not claim any of the rights and privileges which that instrument provided for and secured to citizens of the United States; that, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, they were

considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant [163 U.S. 560] race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.

19 How. 393, 404. The recent amendments of the Constitution, it was supposed, had eradicated these principles from our institutions. But it seems that we have yet, in some of the States, a dominant race -- a superior class of citizens, which assumes to regulate the enjoyment of civil rights, common to all citizens, upon the basis of race. The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution, by one of which the blacks of this country were made citizens of the United States and of the States in which they respectively reside, and whose privileges and immunities, as citizens, the States are forbidden to abridge. Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law. What can more certainly arouse race hate, what more certainly create and perpetuate a feeling of distrust between these races, than state enactments which, in fact, proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior and degraded that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens. That, as all will admit, is the real meaning of such legislation as was enacted in Louisiana.

441 words -- 186 MORE THAN THE WAPOSTIES WROTE. (And I've cited just PART of the dissent.) This TOTAL EDITORIAL INDIFFERENCE to one of the worst Supreme Court rulings ever is far more DAMNABLE than any STUPID NAME CALLING by a STUPID SENATOR. And no, IDIOTS, I DON'T excuse it because of the ERA.

Here is an argument for FREE ACCESS to ALL PARTS OF A NEWSPAPER'S WEB SITE -- so we can GET TO THE BOTTOM OF EDITORIAL MALFEASANCE.