Jeff Sessions says sheriffs have been "the people's protector...since our founding." Tell that to 100,000 innocent black people who Alabama sheriffs forced into slave mines in Alabama between the 1870s and the 1920s.
newsweek.com/jeff-sessions-…
newsweek.com/jeff-sessions-…
Tell the thousands of innocent black people sold by Alabama sheriffs, worked to death, and buried in unmarked mass graves outside Birmingham, Alabama. @AnotherSlavery
Tell the friends of civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels, who was murdered in cold blood w/ the sheriff's approval in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1965 what great protectors of the people sheriffs have always been....
nytimes.com/1997/06/22/us/…
nytimes.com/1997/06/22/us/…
Tell the families of Schwerner Goodman & Chaney how awesome deputy sheriff Cecil Price was for organizing their murder in 1965 & burying them in a Neshoba County, Mississippi earthen dam. Yeah, "Anglo-American" sheriffs have quite a record, Mr. Sessions.
nytimes.com/2001/05/09/us/…
nytimes.com/2001/05/09/us/…
Tell the black citizens of Carroll County, Mississippi how well Sheriff T.T. Hamilton protected them in 1886 when he allowed a white mob to murder 10 black men inside a courtroom, waiting for a trial to begin... Tell them how it never occurred to the sheriff to arrest anyone.
Tell the black citizens of Leflore County, Mississippi, how their sheriff was really protecting them when a mob of white men murdered 25 African-Americans trying to organize a farmer's co-op in 1889.
"Slavery by Another Name," Page 61:
"slaves...were taught that the master was a palpable extension of the power of God...In the era of emancipation, that role—now
stripped of its religiosity and pared to its most elemental dimensions of
power and force—was handed to the sheriff."
"slaves...were taught that the master was a palpable extension of the power of God...In the era of emancipation, that role—now
stripped of its religiosity and pared to its most elemental dimensions of
power and force—was handed to the sheriff."
