Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards took the historic action of signing Louisiana’s first posthumous pardon of Mr. Homer A. Plessy, who was convicted of violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, the purpose of which was to ensure racial segregation as a means to promote white supremacy. Gov. Edwards was joined by descendants of Homer A. Plessy, Justice John Harlan, and Judge John Ferguson, as well as by Southern University Professor of Law Angela Bell, Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, civil rights leaders and a number of state and local elected officials.
gov.louisiana.gov
Plessy v. Ferguson was the 1896 Supreme Court case that established the principle that states could codify racial segregation because separate can be equal. Plessy was convicted for sitting in a Whites Only train car, while having 1/8 "black blood." Only 126 years later, he gets his pardon. Plessy paid a $25 dollar fine in 1896 which apparently will not be returned to his estate, nor will the considerable interested that should have accrued.
The 1896 court decided the case that way by stating that all races have legal equality but that whites retain the right to be protected from intermingling with non-whites in social settings. Only one justice, a Kentucky Republican, dissented.
Just a reminder for people of any political slant, that the judicial branch is every bit as political as the legislative and the executive.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was the 1896 Supreme Court case that established the principle that states could codify racial segregation because separate can be equal. Plessy was convicted for sitting in a Whites Only train car, while having 1/8 "black blood." Only 126 years later, he gets his pardon. Plessy paid a $25 dollar fine in 1896 which apparently will not be returned to his estate, nor will the considerable interested that should have accrued.
The 1896 court decided the case that way by stating that all races have legal equality but that whites retain the right to be protected from intermingling with non-whites in social settings. Only one justice, a Kentucky Republican, dissented.
Just a reminder for people of any political slant, that the judicial branch is every bit as political as the legislative and the executive.
