#also he added olives which EYE consider a federal offense

[moonshynecybin]

I opened Alex’s twitter and his bio says he loves pineapple pizza and I was like Alex..Alex no, maybe Marc wasn’t the reason Alex isn’t allowed in Yamaha maybe Vale saw that and the Italian in him got severely offended and was like no keep this man away, but he’s in a Italian team so I wonder if he’s ever made them have pineapple pizza and how disgusted they would be.

lucky for you i saw this. opened instagram. and gresini was literally having him make a pineapple pizza. cwazy. ummm he IS making that a goofy little contrarian personality trait which i DO enjoy. i think he likes when people do silly fake mad arguments at him… the kind you do with your friends…. that’s the vibe i get

[slaveryrcp-blog]

Race, Crime and Punishment During the Slavery Era

The first blog is about the Slavery Era. I’m going to focus on the fact that white people believed blacks were barbaric but history proves the real culprit. 

**It is not only important to call out murderers and abusers of slaves to make my point that whites are barbaric. It is also important to call out the people in the criminal justice system that let these whites get away with murder and assault, the ones who are supposed to be protecting human rights. After all, if they aren’t protecting people, then they are just adding fuel to the fire, which must mean they are just as barbaric. According to Randall Kennedy, State v. Mann was one of the most important cases during this time period and I think I know why. It all started with a man named John Mann, who leased a slave named Lydia. The North Carolina Supreme Court said Lydia tried running away from Mann for chastising her after committing an offense that wasn’t mentioned. When Lydia disregarded Mann’s order to stop, he shot and wounded her. Obviously we already know Mann was the first barbarian in this crime. Fortunately, Mann was indicted and convicted for assault and battery. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction based on the opinion of the “most respected jurist” (our second barbarian in the crime) Judge Thomas Ruffin. He questioned whether indicting a man for assault and battery against a slave was statutory. His response to his own arrogance was no, on the grounds that a slave must be reprimanded for his actions by his master in order to know his place. Ruffin claimed that courts should not hold hirers accountable for cruel and unreasonable battery because in order to maintain authority and obedience, such punishment is necessary. I think the issue is obvious but I’m going to talk about it anyway. This case is only one of many where a judge reverses a conviction against a white man for assault or even murder against a slave. We can take this even further to point out how no one was held accountable for lynchings that took place and slave patrols and officers even concurred the act and assisted in handing slaves and blacks over to the public to be lynched. Our nation punished black slaves, based on the false belief that they were violent, by being violent. There is a difference between being violent and defending oneself. Clearly we know which category each race falls in. 

**Perhaps, the most important piece of work worth noting in reference to the Slavery Era is the photograph called “The Scourged Back”. The photograph was taken of the back of a former slave named Gordon, or sometimes Peter. Gordon fled his owner’s plantation in Louisiana in 1863 to join the Union Forces in Baton Rouge. During a medical examination, Gordon revealed his scars and two photographers, McPherson and Oliver, snapped photographs of the traumatic history Gordon left behind (Blakemore). The photograph spread across the nation. Not only was it evidence and proof of the brutality slaves endured, but it was a legitimate eye-opener to Northerners who didn’t fully understand the torment going on in the south and also to all whites which helped abolitionists fight against slavery during the Civil War. This photograph drastically emphasizes my overall question during this era. Why is there a stereotype about blacks being violent, wild beings when there were people like Lydia and Gordon who were brutally assaulted and left for dead by the white race? White people are more dehumanized than any other being on this earth.

**Race played a major role in the slave era. Not all black men were slaves but even freed blacks were treated like slaves so whites could maintain the hierarchy (Kennedy, 30). Because black men were seen as “primitive, wild, inferior beings who needed control”, being a slave came with many punishments (Kennedy, 77).. They were beaten and killed by their owners and received no protection from the criminal justice system for it. Forms of punishment on a slave included branding, whipping, ear cropping and castration (Kennedy, 77).  Slave owners rarely received punishment for their crimes. The assault had to be extremely brutal and cruel in order for a charge to be pressed. Eventually slave codes were passed for protection against slaves, but they were not as protected as whites still. Race played a big role in the protection of blacks. If a black man killed a white man, his punishment would be more severe than if a white man killed a black man. Also, blacks were sentenced with capital punishment far more than whites were (Kennedy, 77). Certain states implemented laws to directly punish slaves and even free blacks. The Negro Seaman Act stated that all blacks, not just slaves, must be imprisoned on a South Carolina or Louisiana harbor. The Fugitive Slave Act issued warrants all for all runaway slaves. Race, crime and punishment take a step further into this history by involving gender as a factor. Slave women weren’t protected under law. Many slave women were raped by their owners and were left to suffer the trauma of it (Kennedy, 35). Knowing that all slaves were black, race played a major role in the limitations of slaves. “Criminal statutes banned slaves from learning to read, leaving their masters property without a proper pass, acting informal in presence of a white female, worshiping without white supervision, neglecting to step out of the way for whites on a walkway, smoking in public, walking with a cane, making loud noises, or defending themselves from assaults” (Kennedy, 76). It is not fair to sit here and talk about how horrible white people were back then, without acknowledging the ones that weren’t. Granted, most whites that weren’t abusive, weren’t abusive for in genuine reasons like reputation and a sense of honor, there were still people out there who were deterred from following white supremacists.

**Slavery has become a huge controversy regarding racism. However, it is important to understand where slavery began and what drove it to racism. So if you’re interested in its history, Harold Tallant wrote a piece in the Salem Press Encyclopedia, explaining the birth of slavery and describing its spread into the United States and connecting it to racism. I’ve attached the link for further background information (http://search.ebscohost.com.libdatabase.newpaltz.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid,cookie&db=ers&AN=96397671. )

I spoke about State v. Mann in regards to how Judge Ruffin was a barbaric man for letting another barbaric man rightfully assault his slave. There is another case readers should consider for another perspective. Not only did whites consider blacks as violent, but they also considered them less than human. Take a look at Dred Scott v. Sandford (search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid,cookie&db=ers&AN=89160527) I won’t give away too much, but the ruling was that- free or not, people of African descent were not considered citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts. First we called them wild, then we took away their rights to being human? How humanistic is it if a human decides whether or not another HUMAN’S life is considered human…..