Rodney Reed, an innocent black worker who is the victim of a racist frame-up

This is Black History Month. It seems to me the point of studying Black History is to provide insight into how injustices of the past relate to what is going on in the present and to put an end to these injustices.

One example is the case of Rodney Reed, an innocent black worker who is the victim of a racist frame-up orchestrated by the police, prosecutors, state and local politicians working in cahoots to execute Rodney Reed for a murder carried out by a racist white cop who was assisted in his bestial murder by other racist white cops here in Texas.

History is very important in this case because the Texas criminal justice system was devised by slave-owners who refused to acknowledge Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the fact that the North had won the Civil War and for two years used this time to put on place institutions that would maintain racist injustices in every facet of life… including the criminal justice system. This is all explained in the book, the “1619 Project,” and explains why Texas politicians are so intent in keeping this book out of public libraries and from being used as part of anti-racist curriculum.

Rodney Reed, an innocent man is facing execution because he is trapped in a racist criminal justice system that enables the “legal” lynching to continue. The entire racist concept is that slave owners had the right to do whatever they wanted to their slaves; and the racist criminal justice system enables the racist police, prosecutors, judges and  politicians to continue this racist system.

I’m innocent black man like Rodney Reed has no way to use the judicial system to free himself from this racist web spun by slave-owners and tolerated by a federal government which fears intervening because of fear of losing the votes of so many racist bigots… so politicians like Biden and Kamala Harris just pretend Rodney Reed doesn’t exist.

This is where a movement is required… a movement that will make so much noise and raise so much hell that the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will step in and prosecute all those involved in this racist frame-up of Rodney Reed.

Only the Bastrop County Democratic Party has taken a clear stand that Rodney Reed is the victim of a racist frame-up along with a small handful of state Democratic Party legislators… but, the Texas Democratic Party has been shamefully silent as this racist frame-up has continued with Rodney Reed sitting on death row for over twenty-years having been just days away from execution… saved by the growing movement of concerned people which is still way too small.

As part of Black History Month this struggle to free Rodney Reed must grow and be intensified to the point where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris along with the Department of Justice intervene… justice requires no less than freeing Rodney Reed and prosecuting all those responsible for this hideous racist frame-up and fully compensate Rodney Reed and his family for all the racist injustice and the grief that goes along with that they have been subjected to.

Yes, what about “human rights” Texas style? Shouldn’t this be brought forward during Black History Month?

Human Rights and Rodney Reed.

Civil Rights and Rodney Reed.

A racist criminal justice system put in place by slave-owners and maintained in place by racist cops, racist prosecutors, racist judges and racist politicians and part of a racist social and economic system.

Studying Black History involves the close scrutiny of what, past and present, has enabled a criminal justice system to tolerate the racist frame-up of Rodney Reed.

I would encourage you to read and study the new book, “The 1619 Project” in relation to the racist frame-up of Rodney Reed and then give some very deep thought to how you can plug into the growing movement to save the life of this innocent black man.

Here is some information you might find useful as you educate yourself and get involved in this important human rights and civil rights case: https://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-concerned-citizenactivist-organizing.html?m=1

A lot of people are quick to talk about human rights issues except for those human rights abuses taking place right under their own noses in here in own country; this needs to change.