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As a layman …

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(This column was first published in the Amandala issue of Sunday, October 15, 1995.)

Dred Scott, ghost of O.J. … portents for Belize

The just concluded trial of O.J. Simpson was a psychological tour de force of the power of the white supremacist to use his instrument of control – the media, to manipulate the masses to achieve his goal by whatever means necessary. For us Belizeans, addicted to TV, it was a crash course in the art of indoctrination and brainwashing (of the masses). The televised version showed in living colours the worst and the best of America.

The worst of America: Guilty! Chorused the commentators, echoing the pronouncement of the D.A., who at his very first press conference had no doubt in view of the abundance of evidence, even as that evidence was being collected and collected and distributed and distributed.

The worst of America: The D.A. next announces that the trial will be held in a jurisdiction where he knows that the majority of jurors will be black, but he has no fear because he trusts in their integrity to come to a fair decision of guilty after learning the overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to the defendant. Cleverly he sets the agenda of guilt and subtly sounds the alarm of racism for the white commentators to run with, and run they did. The D.A. conveniently forgot to remind his audience of that fundamental principle of the American justice system: the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The worst of America: The D.A. has once again appealed to the Dred Scott psyche of the white supremacist. He was again refusing to accept the black man as a human being and citizen and he had a living representative of the syndrome in the person of tall, handsome, white Mark Fuhrman (the type Nicole should have married), the counter-point to this uppity nigger who had believed the lie that since desegregation he was now regarded as a man with his human right to marry whom he chose. The white supremacist would never forgive him for crossing this line. Marrying white was the ultimate reason for ruining him, in fact all of them (N.B. to the white supremacist anybody who is not white is black and inferior).

The worst of America: When this key witness for the prosecution self-destructs with the revelation of his tapes, and the learned judge denies those containing his remarks about planting and manufacturing evidence (thereby denying the defence the right to prove their theory of conspiracy and cover-up), the white supremacist dismisses him as irrelevant, and shifts his focus to racism and begins the campaign to question the ability of the jury to reach a fair verdict. He does this with such aplomb that you miss it if you blink. When the mountain of evidence was exploded by this psychotic, the supremacist turns to the emotions of race; he blandly shifts his campaign by accusing the defence of racism, resorting to the International Comintern’s psychological tactic of accusing their opponent of what you have been doing all along. Does this supremacist really believe that if those tapes were heard, any jury in the world would have voted for anything but an acquittal? He still believes that the black man is genetically inferior and stupid indeed.

Fortunately, there is the rest of America: The televising to the world for all to see just how the American system of justice works. Thanks to the fame and wealth of O. J., the people of the world were able to judge for themselves the decision of the jurors.

The best of America: the steadfast support of his white friends and white attorneys who believe in the principle of innocence until proven guilty; who believe that it was time for Dred Scott to be recognized as a human being and have the rights of citizenship equal to that of the white man.

The best of America: A verdict was rendered by his peers in the presence of reasonable doubt.

The white supremacist has vowed to continue to fit a square into a round whole. He is threatening to change his principles by changing the system to suit his feelings. He has signaled his intention to pursue O.J. to destruction. One would have thought that he would support O.J. for a bid to the U.S. Senate as he did for Oliver North, that he would accept the verdict as he did for William Kennedy Smith, and as he did in exultation for Mike Tyson. So what is the above all about? It is about us Belizeans, Folks?

America has bought our futures. Their increased presence in our country at the end of this century will by the law of averages have this supremacist mindset among them. They control our currency (Belize dollar fixed to the U.S. dollar and we have no bank of our own to even whisper), our communications system (BTL/MCI trading on NASDAQ). They control our educational system (where do our textbooks come from? And when was the last time black history was taught in our schools?) With the advent of the offshore medical school from Montserrat and the other one, SPARTA, opening in January, they will control our health system, as they already do our agricultural system (through their quota mechanisms). They will be set, folks, to treat us as they please.

Let us pray that at that time “the best of America” will prevail over the “worst of America.” In God we trust.

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