Disrespectful

“That devil Forrest must be hunted down and killed if it costs ten thousand lives and bankrupts the federal treasury.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman 1864
One of the most atrocious and godless crimes of the Civil War took place in Henning, Tennessee on April 12, 1864. Im talking about the massacre at Fort Pillow. After encircling Fort Pillow, General Forrest requested the surrender of the garrison. The garrison was comprised of 262 soldiers from the U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery and about 350 white Union troops. Overwhelmed, the troops at Fort Pillow surrendered. Nathan Bedford Forrest then had his men summarily execute the black troops and their commanders. The white troops were taken prisoner. After the Civil War, Forrest went on to become the first Grand Lizard… I mean Wizard… of the Imperial Knights Of The Klu Klux Klan. Now that I think about it… lizard sounds better… Lizard of the Imperial Knights Of The Klu Klux Klan. Anywho I brought this up because of the recent events in the Tennessee House of Representatives, in which two black state congressmen were expelled for protesting the state’s liberal gun laws.
Police: Sir, do you know why I stopped you? You were doing 40 mph in a 25 mph zone…
Motorist: I’m so sorry officer… Omg!! Is that a Mach 4 Triple Barrel Head and Spleen Exploder you’re carrying?!!
Police: Sir, flattery will get you nowhere… I’ll need to see your gun registration and insurance…
So the expulsion of two black state congressmen for exercising their 4th Amendment rights wasn’t a big surprise to me, given the fact that Tennessee is already well-known for its venomous racism of the past and for its current punishing of what it views as disrespectful black folks who back sass gawd fearing Americans. During the Civil War, Tennessee sent over 120,000 men to fight on the Confederate side, although I would be remiss not to mention that it also sent 30,000 men to fight with the Union. In addition, more Civil War battles were fought in Tennessee than in any other place except Virginia. Now you normally equate cotton growing with the deep south, but there was a whole bunch of cotton pickers in Tennessee. About 25% of its population was made up of slaves.

Mild Please…

Now 25% of its population pre-Civil War meant that approximately 250,000 black people were enslaved there. Mississippi had the largest slave population percentage-wise with about 55% of its citizens being enslaved black folks. But what Tennessee didn’t make up for in the amount of enslaved people it had, it made up for it in viciousness and cruelty. In December of 1865, just nine months after Lee begged Grant not to make him shine Sgt. Heeaz Darkazll boots… and before he “even” considered giving his traitorous Confederate army the blessing of surrendering to him unconditionally…
Grant: “And I mean if I say go out there and make all my black troops southern fried chicken… you say mild or spicy!!”…
Just nine months after in a decrepit law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, six men met and formed the most notorious white supremacist organization known in American history, the Klu Klux Klan. Yes folks, the Klu Klux Klan was founded in none other than Tennessee.
Klu: “Hey Klux.. Klan… I got an idea.”
Klux: “You and your ideas!! Look Klu… I ain’t fuquing with them Indians no more…”
Klan: “Klux as long as you leave your hat on.. ain’t nobody can tell…”
Klu: “No guys really…I have a real good idea this time… let faque with the nigras!”
Klan: “We do owe them… right after we surrendered I went up to one and he backed sassed me right in my eyeball!! I asked him… ‘Nigra can I keep my hunting rifle..?’ I was gonna need it when I got home…”
Klux: “What did the nigra say?”
Klan: “He told me to faque around and find out…”
Klux: So that’s why you were standing up at the church… I thought you got shot in the war…!
Klu: “Ya see!! I told ya!! Look… there was a sale over at Lynching’s General Store.. got a good deal on these pillowcases and sheets…”

Good Luck With That…

And the rest is history folks…
On March 23, 1875, just ten years after the Civil War, the Tennessee legislature passed House Bill 527, granting permission to hotels, inns, public transportation, and amusement parks to deny entry and service to any individuals based on any grounds. Notice it didn’t mention anything about color. They did that to thwart the 13th Amendment, which outlawed discriminating against African Americans, granting them among other things, equal treatment in public accommodations. It had been passed three weeks before the Tennessee law was passed. The same year they prohibited the integration of public schools. But they really showed all of it in 1875 when they opposed the Civil Right Act of 1875… and they won! The U.S. Supreme Court found in 1883 the Civil Rights Act to be an unconstitutional exercise of Thirteenth Amendment powers! So the 13th Amendment abolished slavery… well almost abolished slavery… part of the amendment says something about it’s not permitted unless it’s part of a punishment. Anyway, the court’s thinking was that the 1883 Civil Rights Act did not pertain to individuals or private entities. They held that the law only forbade states from discriminating against African Americans. So while states could not say, “If you don’t get the faque outta here nigra…” individuals and private businesses could. They said anyone with grievances against a private citizen or business could take the matter to state court. I know they were laughing they azz off after that…
Blackman: Judge, I want to present before the court a case of discrimination… Mister…
Judge: Wait a minute… what are you doing? You can’t stand there… you have to stand in the back of the court in the nigra section…
Blackman: Your honor.. as I was saying… I have been aggrieved by…
Judge: Bailiff, can you go back there and tell that nigra I can hardly hear him…
Blackman: Your honor..can you hear me now sir?
Judge: “Yeah I can hear you now nigra… and I don’t like the tone of your voice! ‘Bailiff take that nigra over to the nigra jail and lock him up!!’ “
So yeah, going to southern state courts and talking about discrimination was gonna work about as well as a blind tightrope walker. When the Supreme Court ruled the 1883 Civil Rights Act as being unconstitutional, it nullified the 14th Amendment, Equal Protection Clause, which says:
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
This was the clause everybody was using to fight off discrimination up to that point. By moving discrimination out of the hands of the state and putting it into the hands of southern citizens, they did an end run around the 14th Amendment, Equal Protection Clause.

Naw… Go Behind it…

So Tennessee was in it like Bennett… that’s old school ya’ll… meaning they were into racism up to their hood wearing, cross burning, furry little eyebrows. This latest incident in which the Republican led House expelled two black congressmen for speaking on behalf of a combined 78,000 people is nothing short of a 21st-century Massa that’s upset for a couple of nigras back sassing. Never before in the history of the Tennessee House of Representatives has any congressman or woman been expelled for a protest… of any sort. Tennessee’s Black House Caucus is up in arms and talking shat… though they better calm down before the Massa throw some more ropes up in the trees… The US Senate and the President have called it foul what they doing there and national and international newspapers have weighed in on the blatant racist action. Blatant because there were three congresspeople protesting… one was white. She wasn’t expelled. They relieved her of her committee assignments, akin to taking somebody to the woodshed.
Republican House: Uh… we just gonna take you to the woodshed… those nigras of yo’s gonna see kingdom come…
Luckily, the Tennessee Constitution does not forbid the congressmen from running again and regaining their seats. So we will likely see them again up in there! Finally, I am going to end this article with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… as a warning to all of us.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Dr. Martin Luther King – April 16, 1963

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