Justice For Jordan Miles
Even though Pittsburgh Police beat Jordan Miles until he looked like this:
And even though Jordan Miles, an honor student who plays the viola, broke no laws and committed no crimes, the Federal Government decided not to prosecute the 3 undercover Pittsburgh Police officers who savagely beat him.
To add insult to injury, Pittsburgh’s Mayor and Police Chief immediately reinstated the 3 officers without so much as a apology. An outraged Pittsburgh community called for an emergency protest to pressure the local District Attorney to prosecute these officers to the fullest extent of the law.
Below is my good friend, and fellow One Hood founding member Paradise Gray (also a founding member of the Blackwatch Movement and the legendary rap group X-Clan) passionately demanding Justice for Jordan Miles and speaking on the futility of a war on terror overseas while black men are terrorized in their own neighborhoods.
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“Judges do not write unjust statutes. But judges do decide whether to enforce them and are ultimately responsible for the laws they enforce. We can take Plessy as an example once again. Judges did not invent segregation. But as Herbert Hovenkamp argues, the judges who upheld statutes permitting segregation must share some of the responsibility for the racism that their rulings helped to legitimate and perpetuate: The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism.
An outpouring of recent historical scholarship on racism and the American law reveals the outrageous and humiliating extent to which American lawyers, judges and legislators created, perpetuated, and defended racist American institutions. Legal rules recognized and justified racism. More importantly, legal rules enforced racism by making segregation and the degradations of racism a legal duty rather than an act of individual free will. In the process they cleared the consciences of white Americans by relieving them of any sense of responsibility for racist practices”. (Judges and Unjust Laws, Edlin, Douglas E., 131-132)
The life of Jordan Miles is a direct result of the abovementioned. The legacy of the evils of slavery and the structure of white supremacy strongly remain, especially within the legal system – where more meaningful action is needed to eradicate these problems. Furthermore, un-repented hatred lies dormant within a person’s heart. It reveals itself when confronted with the truth. Scripture warns of “spiritual wickedness in high places”, which includes all colors of the human race. It’s a survival war between “good” and “evil”. Which side are you on? If evildoers follow the method of “united we stand divided we fall”, why can’t “good” people also? Lastly, the backlash of Mr. Obama’s presidency is destructively far-reaching to the dispossessed citizens of this country through police terrorism, and unjust laws and policies that are created by corrupt lawmakers, protected by Prosecutors and defense attorneys, and upheld by the courts.
“Judges do not write unjust statutes. But judges do decide whether to enforce them and are ultimately responsible for the laws they enforce. We can take Plessy as an example once again. Judges did not invent segregation. But as Herbert Hovenkamp argues, the judges who upheld statutes permitting segregation must share some of the responsibility for the racism that their rulings helped to legitimate and perpetuate: The courts must bear a heavy share of the burden of American racism.
An outpouring of recent historical scholarship on racism and the American law reveals the outrageous and humiliating extent to which American lawyers, judges and legislators created, perpetuated, and defended racist American institutions. Legal rules recognized and justified racism. More importantly, legal rules enforced racism by making segregation and the degradations of racism a legal duty rather than an act of individual free will. In the process they cleared the consciences of white Americans by relieving them of any sense of responsibility for racist practices”. (Judges and Unjust Laws, Edlin, Douglas E., 131-132)
The life of Jordan Miles is a direct result of the abovementioned. The legacy of the evils of slavery and the structure of white supremacy strongly remain, especially within the legal system – where more meaningful action is needed to eradicate these problems. Furthermore, un-repented hatred lies dormant within a person’s heart. It reveals itself when confronted with the truth. Scripture warns of “spiritual wickedness in high places”, which includes all colors of the human race. It’s a survival war between “good” and “evil”. Which side are you on? If evildoers follow the method of “united we stand divided we fall”, why can’t “good” people also? Lastly, the backlash of Mr. Obama’s presidency is destructively far-reaching to the dispossessed citizens of this country through police terrorism, and unjust laws and policies that are created by corrupt lawmakers, protected by Prosecutors and defense attorneys, and upheld by the courts.