A Notice to Black Drug Dealers, "Gangstas," and "Thugs": The Street Thing Won't Last Forever the way you hope it will.

11.30.05 - My gut tells me that society is being marginalized into something so sinister, that young Blacks in the 21st Century, school-age kids, and even young adults will either be in school, working, or in jail. That sounds like an extreme scenario now, but this presidential administration is currently and rather surreptitiously setting events in motion where this will be the case in the not-to-distant future. A young Black male will have to be a producer in order to make it and survive in the 2,000's, those of you kids and even adults who brag about knowing nothing but the streets, your street is coming to a dead end. You'll either force yourself to learn, or find employment, or sit in a cell and become a producer in the prison industrial complex. Those will be your only three options. A few weeks ago I wrote about the Bush administration waving off an anti-prison abuse law. This was a law that was initiated back in May as a result of a Senate probe of prisoner abuse allegations at Abu-Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay, and American prisons such as Ft. Leavenworth, and the ones in Texas. It was hoped that the law would put an end to sadistic, physical, and psychological abuse of prisoners, during wartime this was especially important because such behavior only angers the opposition and inspires insurgents. But the White House blocked the rule late last August.

This was not covered by the major media, back then, but now the ongoing debate is receiving much exposure. The Black Press should have been all over it because it will eventually affect the mistreatment of African American prisoners as well, but they weren't. Perhaps both sides of the press won't be so anxious to cut W a break when they peep the winds of change in his judicial branch. I'm seeing a return to the days of the Scottsboro boys.

Late last spring most of the Supreme Court Justices put judges and prosecutors on notice about their racist all-White jury rigging, citing two cases as an example, they turned back two death penalty rulings involving Black defendants. These two cases-one in California and the other a well known case out of Texas-show how arrogant racism in the nation's courtrooms can defeat it's own purpose in even the most glaringly obvious cases where the Black defendant is clearly guilty, making thugs into political prisoners.

The high court overturned California by an 8-1 decision due to 3 prospective Black jurors not surviving the selection process. CA judges can now exercise the authority to intervene the selection if there is a "strong likelihood that race bias was involved." Clarence Thomas, the SC's only Black member, was the lone dissenter. Texas' Thomas Miller-El case saw 19 out of 20 potential jurists eliminated. They followed a '63 Dallas DA's handbook that reads: "do not take jews, negroes, dagos, mexican, or minority." There are no activists or press that dispute Miller-El's guilt, obviously his prosecutors didn't sleep at the Holiday Inn that night, In '86 Miller-El was accused of robbing and killing a Holiday Inn employee, the peremptory challenges sparked the SC to outlaw all-White Jury stocking in '86. Last June the Thomas Miller El decision was reversed by a 6-3 decision. Scalia and Rehnquist, along with Thomas-who referred to the accusations of jury rigging as "speculation."-dissented. With Samuel Alito tapped to replace Rehnquist, consider the Black juror picnic over once you find out Alito's stand on jury makeup, he once ignored obvious evidence to bump Blacks from a jury, to uphold a conviction on a death penalty case.