Roger b taney quotes
Roger b taney dred scott!
“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.”
Roger B.
Taney, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, March 1857
As we enter 2015 with renewed sentiment, I cannot help but think of the last few months of 2014 as “Black Lives Matter” protests continued and the country wrestled with the question of racism.
Roger b taney quotes
On December 13, 2014, I participated in the march against Police Brutality in Washington, DC. In the midst of the protest and the various calls for justice, I could not help but hear the oft repeated sentence from the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Dred Scott v.
Sanford case that blacks have no rights that whites are bound to respect. As an historian specializing in the nin