Disclaimer: We are not doing a good thing in life when we revel in anyone’s sudden or even their expected passing. However … the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia simply isn’t going to be met with tears on most of the Black and progressive community’s watch. Most of us are going to cry like Scalia would have cried if Louis Farrakhan or even if Barack Obama JR. had died before he did.
That said…”Scalia’s unexpected passing sets up a politically charged battle to replace him. Mere moments after his death was confirmed, Conn Carroll, a key staffer for Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), promised Republicans would block anyone that Obama nominated.” – ThinkProgress
Not unexpectedly and not surprisingly enough, the political machine that gives a damned about nothing and no one but itself decided that they were, once again, going to grease the wheels of “Obama opposition.” Let us go ahead and finish this one for them … “to make sure he doesn’t appoint some nigger liberal socialist” to take Scalia’s place.
Might as well say it. It’s been their whole reason for existing since The REAL First American Black President was elected in 2008, especially after everything they did to keep him from taking his seat and subsequently after everything they did to uproot him from his seat, did not work out for them.
Be surprised if they don’t “blame Obama” for this death, too.
Anyhoo… we won’t question Scalia’s “patriotism” or whether or not he had more than a superficial relationship with a white lambasting god who made him say things about God’s FIRSTFRUIT creation that were obviously in error, but —
As recently as December of 2015 – and I have to wonder if he’d have rethought this if he had known he was going to be spiraling to “somewhereselseville” less than two months later – Scalia stated in an amicus brief that “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.”
That was not the least amongst the many racist and bigoted comments Scalia has made over his term as a Justice, but it was one of the biggest ones. He actually had the unmitigated gall to bypass all of the Black students who have excelled at everything they have ever done in life, running far past any white student who knows less about their own white history than the Black people who have to demand their own history even be put ON a college curriculum. Just casually overlooked them and wrote it in a brief as if his words carried weight and authority based on the filthy mind-curdling bench from which he wrote them.
Scalia is also a key feature piece in the removal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which required that states with a “history of racial discrimination” have any changes to their voting laws approved by the Justice Department’s civil rights division or Washington, D.C.’s federal court. He argued that the provision was the “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” The provision was put in place to stop the very thing that happened after it was removed — the perpetuation of white racial entitlement that stopped as many Blacks (and “the obligatory other minorities”) from voting as possible.
The conservative supremacist judge’s every move, especially after the REAL “First Black President” was elected, have been reflective of his own racial entitlement to judge everything that happens in America that came across his desk by his own white superiority and privileged lens.
Often accused of having a bad case of senility and dementia, what is more sad about Scalia than his sudden death, is the fact that his legacy is marred with every possible racist notion the United States ever dreamed up in its nearly 500 year history.
And yet, Scalia’s death is also regaled by the fact of what Oprah once said about “Maybe the only way racism ends in America is when ‘those people’ all just die off” (or words to that effect). That way, the next generation can take the shape it would have taken by now had Scalia’s kind not efficiently stood smack in the way of advancement and progress. He most assuredly will not be missed, not by anyone important in the world on our watch.
Maybe this time, for the second or third time in her entire career life, Oprah was right. Die off..they all ultimately will.
And the world can FINALLY get on with its truest and BEST life: Freedom from corporate shills and chitheads like Antonin Scalia, whether the rest of us live to see that day or not.
In the meantime, just the thought that Scalia’s body was not cold dead and drained of its smelly fluids or replaced with embalming fluid to put some red coloring back in his plastic waxen heart before “they” decided to honor the legacy of Scalia with yet one more less than American patriotic “f*ck you” to our President, Barack H. Obama Jr. — well, that is all that needed to be said about what kind of man, about what kind of American patriotic and “christian” Scalia really was; and about what kind of Supreme Court Justice we need going forward.He was the kind of Justice that Americans can do without.
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