Essay on In The Eyes of Justice Blackmun

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If Justice Blackmun were to ever hear about or have to take Robert F. Williams case in the Supreme Court, I believe Justice Blackmun would be appalled and think much of Williams story is awful for the sake of the black community. Not only do it think he would be for the use of weapons to defend themselves from the angry mobs but I also think and mainly in the case think that Justice Blackmun would be most appalled at the actions of the state and federal governments for not intervening to protect the lives of the black community. In the sake of the blacks in the city of Monroe, I believe the biggest aspect of the problem was the failed attempts of the government to do their duties to protect Robert F. Williams and the picketers who where being tormented by the angry mobs of Klan members and white supremacists. If Justice Blackmun and some of the other Supreme Court members where to hear of the things going on in the state and federal levels of government there biggest issue in the court would be to eliminate racism and create the vision of equal rights for whites and blacks throughout the government systems back in those times. In the eyes of Justice Blackmun I believe he would also find the some of the cases during the time of the mobs in Monroe very appalling. This is branching off of my topic about the government not doing its rightful job on all levels of the government. I believe cases such as the “Kissing Case” and the case where the Freedom Riders who were beaten and thrown into jail for unapparent reasons would have an effect on Blackmun’s outlook of what was going on. I’m sure he would have found these cases inhumane and would have wanted to take them to higher levels of the court system to try and reverse the outcome of the cases and state that the “illegal” things that were going on weren’t in fact the faults of the people like the two young boys who were jailed for something they supposedly did without being tried in court and see
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