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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Injustice of the Courts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,<br>Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;<br>Legal ills they thrust upon him, and the tale is passing sad—<br>Equal rights with white men? Never! Color-phobia makes them mad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the training of the children, every Negro to suppress,<br>They their spleen may vent upon him and he happy, none the less,<br>They will boast aloud in anger if by Negroes they are crossed,<br>'If we shoot or kill a Negro, not a cent will be the cost.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Juries represent the people and their sentiments make known,<br>When a Negro comes in question there's discrimination shown.<br>They are bold to make assertion that they will not do the same<br>For a Negro as a white man, and no feeling comes of shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jurymen have made confession after trial had been made<br>Of a Negro, and 'He's guilty!' was the verdict there displayed.<br>Stern remorse so touched the conscience, they the story did relate,<br>How the verdict they had rendered was to stay the dying fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It was hard to say him guilty, for the man, we thought, was clear.<br>But a mob was making clamors that were terrible to hear.'<br>'Punishment or death!' it shouted, and around began to press;<br>And of two impending evils, we have chosen him the less.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus we legalized the lynchers, we their words to court have brought,<br>And the innocent convicted! how revolting is the thought!<br>When a mob has forced a jury to a stand against the right,<br>All the waters of the ocean cannot make the conscience white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Once a Negro girl was saucy, and the wife the husband told,<br>Who in haste arraigned the servant and began to swear and scold.<br>Then he whipped her without mercy—straightway she to law applied.<br>Passing strange—they found him guilty, and the judge was sorely tried.<br>This he said, in making sentence, 'No disfavor comes to you,<br>You have only done as others, or as I myself would do,<br>If your servants vex the mistress, thrash them out again, I say,<br>Go to jail ten minutes only, and a fine of five cents pay!'<br>If a judge is conscientious, then the people vote him out,<br>His partiality to white men they must know, beyond a doubt.<br>No equality for Negroes in the law the world must know,<br>If he fails to make distinctions, from the bench they'll have him go.<br>Page 45 <br>This injustice is a cancer, in the nation's breast it lives,<br>Quietly and unmolested, awful is the death it gives.<br>It results from color-phobia, which the God of right defies,<br>Slaves of prejudice, take warning! pause before the nation dies.<br>All the land is running riot, laws are trampled in the face,<br>Negroes must be law-abiding; whites alone the laws debase.<br>Wrong upon itself is coiling, hissing serpent of the times,<br>Whites in self-defense are crying, 'Shield us from our people's crimes.'<br>Barbarism fills the country, all for safety take alarm,<br>From the lowest to the highest, no one now is free from harm;<br>Anarchy is rife among us, all resulting from the same,<br>Gross injustice of the court-room brings the nation into shame.<br>Page 46 <br>Lawlessness is at a premium, woeful penalty it brings,<br>Relic of the middle ages is the present state of things.<br>To the winds we now are sowing, and the whirl-wind comes at length,<br>Evils cast upon the waters come again with added strength.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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