Unleash the Dragon Within by Steven Macramalla Ph.D

Author:Steven Macramalla, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623173661
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2019-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

He stands as one against many, placing personal experience against public myth, saying, “Those same kids in Virginia and South Carolina, they play on their farms together, they go down the road together, they separate to go to school, they come out of school and play ball together.” He admonishes the opposition who, with “little pet feelings of race, little pet feelings of custom,” can only uphold their arguments if they firmly believe “of all of the multitudinous groups of people in this country you have to single out Negroes and give them separate treatment,” but know they cannot “stand in court and urge that.”15

So far, he is addressing the court as a Tiger at the first level of maturity where he is directly confronting the opposition, but Marshal goes further. In a good example of Tiger at the second stage of maturity, he makes himself bigger than the prejudice he is fighting. He affirms that the Supreme Court “makes clear to all of these states that in administering their governmental functions … [they must be] vital not to the life of the state alone, not to the country alone, but vital to the world in general.” He deftly argues that the Supreme Court supersedes the power of the individual states, saying the Fourteenth Amendment was intended “to deprive the states of power to enforce Black Codes or anything else like it.” In an example of Tiger at the third stage of maturity, he appeals directly to the collective heart, arguing for an environment in which the self-determination of the many is more likely. He affirms that the legitimacy of the individual states is based, not on the needs of the state alone, but on principles of justice recognized around the world. He drives home relentlessly that the needs of justice are greater than the “little pet feelings of custom” enforced by the Black Codes. His final remarks deal the coup de grace. He makes the debate about something bigger than race or class, but about human nature’s tendency to degrade:

… It [justification for segregation] can’t be because of slavery in the past, because there are very few groups in this country that haven’t had slavery some place back in history of their groups. It can’t be color because there are Negroes as white as the drifted snow, with blue eyes, and they are just as segregated as the colored man. The only thing it can be is an inherent determination that the people who were formerly in slavery, regardless of anything else, shall be kept as near that stage as is possible, and now is the time, we submit, that this Court should make it clear that that is not what our Constitution stands for. Thank you, sir.16

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