PP Herman Wallace on Juneteenth

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Herman on Juneteenth 2009

All power to the people.

I am really in a mad hurry, but I need to take all of these facts to late 1820's, a time when Sojourner Truth [likened] the US Constitution with a field of cotton.

Though the cotton was tall and beautiful, she said, as I got closer I learned the cotton was saturated with boll weevils. She was speaking of having tested the Constitution.

When Sojourner Truth was later asked to research and speak of this mighty document that is said to embody the fundamental laws of the United States, she learned it too had boll weevils in it.

In 1791, the 8th Amendment was added to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Two hundred and eighteen years later, the Constitution still has boll weevils in it.

In 1861 the US Constitution abolished slavery. A hundred and forty-one years later, still boll weevils.

In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, securing all persons of getting any state from depriving that person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or in denial of equal protections of law.

Now, since Africans in America were not qualified as citizens, aliens, nor people by design, but unquestionably held as slaves, this constitution did not and continued to not give protections to Africans in America.

Thursday, June 18th, 2009, on the heels of Juneteenth, the US Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision, ruled that convicted felons have no right to test biological evidence, evidence used at his or her trial years earlier to prove innocence. A
hundred and forty-one years later, and 67.7 of experience, I bear witness to boll weevils still in the US Constitution.

I am Herman Wallace.

(More info at Criminal Injustice in Louisiana Continues)