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Some people feel that the torture and death of an individual who has committed a crime is justice. The simple fact of the matter is that when we impose the death
and implication. The question is, why use theater to convey such facets? The answer is simple: to learn justice, or iniquity in our society. Jean Anouilh's revised
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Richard Kluger's Simple Justice
While reading Richard Kluger’s Simple Justice, I was struck by the fact that this is probably the most thorough book I have ever read on the Brown v. Board of Education case. Besides the numerous civil rights leaders and soldiers that the book examines, Kluger also provides a startlingly account of Supreme Court justices and the process of decision-making. Perhaps what struck me most about this book, however, was the agonizing struggle of both gifted and ordinary people, both black and white, to reverse four centuries of the racial disparities and injustices that make up the ugliest facet of the United States’ rise to power.
The endemic quality of racism in the American psyche is so overwhelming that it is easy to lose the human element. In this book’s retelling of nightmarish incident after nightmarish incident (the explosive and hideous lynchings are as senseless as the equally hideous and more subtle segregation and caricaturing that endured for, it seems, ever), It was especially interesting to note that America’s view of itself as a noble nation being eaten by the canker in its soul.
I found Part I of Kluger's book "Under the Color of Law" very interesting. One of the things of interest to me was how people during that time, both black and white, thought about the issues. Not merely the abolitionists, or “civil rights-soldiers” so much as the common white and black man, and political leaders, including the more powerful ones like President Lincoln (who were somewhat more indirectly involved in the changes that eventually started to take place).
The 1954 Supreme Court Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision was, according to Kluger, one of the high court's single most important rulings. This decision invalidated the ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson which held that segregated facilities were acceptable as long they were "separate but...
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