What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
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