In 1949, a white woman accused multiple black men of raping her at night, in Martinsville, Virginia, and of which, seven young black men, were subsequently put on trial, of which, no doubt, their "confessions" were an integral part of getting each of them convicted of rape, by an all-male and all-white jury. All this occurred way before the day of DNA evidence and other typical forensic evidence that we would typically see in a rape trial of today. The ultimate penalty for these seven young black men, was for each one of them to be executed by the state, through electrocution which was duly performed in 1953. So then, in so many words, through the testimony of one white woman, essentially, seven black men were lynched by the state.
The actual events of the evening in question, may not ever be known for a certainty; what is certainly known, though, is that seven young black men were executed, which seems clearly to be a gross injustice, especially in consideration that a black woman, under similar circumstances, would not even get a hint of a trial of seven young white men so accused of raping her, and for a certainty none of those would ever be up for a possible death penalty, if somehow tried and convicted. This signifies, what pretty much anybody of any reasonably sound mind, should know, that in America, back then, as well as America right now, that race plays an integral part in justice so served, and therefore justice is, in effect, not blind in American jurisprudence.
Further to the point, when law so being enforced, is clearly racist, and of which, this type of racism, can readily be proven, by simply looking at court records in detail, taking into account decisions so made by a jury consisting exclusively of the favored race, against the convictions so of, of the unfavored race, the only reasonable conclusion to reach is that those that are unfavored, are at a distinct material disadvantage to those that are favored. Additionally, it would be one thing if such favoritism, consisted solely of better seats on a bus, better drinking fountains, better service at restaurants, and so on and so forth, but, in reality, that to a certain extent is just a symptom of a corrupt system, when taken into consideration the material fact, that those of color who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, or placed there by the authorities, licit or illicit, are in imminent danger of forfeiting their life, not only through extrajudicial justice which is one thing, but also through the facade of state sanctioned fair justice, which is an entirely different thing.
The state has the highest of duties to abide by Constitutional law, and seven black men being executed in cold blood, for the alleged rape of one white woman, is never going to be just. Justice such as that, is the very reason why so many blacks were terrorized and lynched, back in the day, because those so serving that veneer of impartial court justice, were themselves, often racists of the highest order, who utilized the power of the state to effectively "lynch" those that needed to be taught a permanent lesson, so done, through the sanction of governmental law, grossly misapplied.