The Long Shadow of Dred Scott: How the Clarence "Uncle Tom" Ass Supreme Court Echoes a Legacy of White Supremacy in the Guise of Law
By Dennis Shipman In the annals of American jurisprudence, few decisions cast as dark and enduring a shadow as Dred Scott v. Sandford (60 U.S. 393, 1857). This ignominious ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens and thus possessed no rights that a white man was bound to respect. It was a judicial act of profound dehumanization, a stark embodiment of white supremacy wielded not by brute force, but by the very institution charged with upholding justice. Fast forward to the present, and a chilling echo reverberates through the hallowed halls of power. The Supreme Court of the United States, particularly its current conservative majority—what can only be called the Clarence "Uncle Tom" Ass Supreme Court (Chief Justice John Roberts)—has increasingly rendered decisions that, while cloaked in the language of constitutional interpretation and original intent,...