Politikos

By Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS 18 de febrero de 2014

The Lynching Roots of the “American Justice System”

The “American justice system” is rooted on lynching as the practice of one of the

principles upon which the synthetic country called “America” was founded: slavery.

The ownership of slaves was incorporated into the constitution of the invaders who

ignited the enduring genocide of the American Indian nations to steal their land as a

sacred private property right preserved by god, the State and the Church.

The slaver did not treat the slave as a person endowed by nature with the natural

properties of sensibility, freedom and equality.

The psychology of the “white American children” was shaped by the impressions

caused by the furious lynching mobs in the Circus Maximus of the feudal aristocracy.

The children who were wet-nursed by African women were taken by their parents to

see the hanging of African persons as the representation of an act of justice and

amusement that made the family picnic more enjoyable.

The American sense of justice was designed with the images of the tongue of an

African man pushed out of his mouth by the force of his body hanging from the

lynchers’ halter and the scent of black burnt skin on the lynchers’ pyre.

That is the model—a volatile mixture of ignorance, avarice and hate—that the invaders

of America used to construct the feelings of self-righteousness and love for the “one

nation under god” that they superimposed over the bones of the American Indian and

African nations.

The perception of justice is still affected by the hallucinations of the master caste: god,

country, race, and power. This is the reason jurors continue to find the African

American victims of crimes inspired by slavery guilty of not looking white.