In September 2017, Walter Johnson wrote an article in the Boston Review titled “No Rights Which is White Man is Bound to Respect,” a title after a claim from Chief Justice Roger Taney’s ruling in the case of Scott V. Sanford in 1857, highlighting the systemic racism that plagued America during this time, and how Chief Justice Taney’s words have only become more true with time. Detailing the unjust police state that was prominent in Missouri, Johnson emphasizes the racism and brutality the government was enabling over a hundred years ago, and how it is still unjustly enabled today in twenty first century societies. Johnson effectively shines a light on America’s corrupt government, and its unfair, racially criminalizing justice system by using
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Sanford and Roger Taney’s unjust majority decision, Johnson identity’s the ways in which this case has shaped America culturally, politically, and socially. Providing several examples as to how America has not come far from the Dred Scott decision in 1857, the Stockley and Smith case provides a perfectly aligned present day example with the same underlying message that the lack of limitations and police impunity within America creates an prejudicial Justice system and makes all of the progress America has made both culturally and racially, nearly futile. Walter Johnson successfully analyzes the in depth truth behind America’s systemically racist and socially separated community of people and how the government allows for white people, especially those in power, to thrive off of the misfortune and injustice that people of color face. Providing this article to his audience. Walter Johnson provided a wake up call to the people of America, shinning a light on the United States of America they were allowing to thrive, while indirectly demanding for a change that this country has yet to see in the 400 years since slavery first appeared on this
Sanford and Roger Taney’s unjust majority decision, Johnson identity’s the ways in which this case has shaped America culturally, politically, and socially. Providing several examples as to how America has not come far from the Dred Scott decision in 1857, the Stockley and Smith case provides a perfectly aligned present day example with the same underlying message that the lack of limitations and police impunity within America creates an prejudicial Justice system and makes all of the progress America has made both culturally and racially, nearly futile. Walter Johnson successfully analyzes the in depth truth behind America’s systemically racist and socially separated community of people and how the government allows for white people, especially those in power, to thrive off of the misfortune and injustice that people of color face. Providing this article to his audience. Walter Johnson provided a wake up call to the people of America, shinning a light on the United States of America they were allowing to thrive, while indirectly demanding for a change that this country has yet to see in the 400 years since slavery first appeared on this