By Donald V. Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published on October 6, 2018
To the Women of America:
Welcome to Dred Scott Land -- a special place where you have no rights that men are bound to respect. It took you nearly a hundred years to arrive back at this awful destination in America history, but you made it.
You can thank U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) for delivering you to this dreadful place and sad moment in time. She made sure you arrived at President Donald J. Trump’s political plantation with all the “pomp and circumstance” befitting of a politician who proudly sold you out to an unabashed sexist and chauvinistic plantation master. Senators Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) and Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia) joined Sen. Collins in delivering you to Dred Scott Land, but she was clearly the political ringleader of this group.
Sen. Collins represents to you what Clarence Thomas represents to African-Americans -- a subservient being whose sole reason for living is to please and faithfully serve her plantation master.
For women who do not pay attention to American history, Dred Scott is an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared that black Africans imported as slaves “had no rights that the white man was bound to respect.”
Like slaves, women in America had no rights that men were bound to respect from the time the first colony was founded in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 until the 1870s, when a husband’s legal right to (a) beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, (b) pull her hair, (c) choke her, (d) spit in her face, (d) kick her about the floor, and (e) inflict upon her like indignities came to a fitting end through a series of landmark court cases around the nation. Women did not get the right to vote until 1920. Furthermore, a husband’s legal right to rape his wife did not end until 1979.
Like African-Americans, women in America today have legal rights on paper that are rarely enforced in reality. Empty political rhetoric about these rights has replaced genuine enforcement actions.
You should know that President Donald Trump is a cold and cruel plantation master. He has an obvious disdain for all women. In his eyes, women have no rights that men are bound to respect. Trump’s view in this regard also applies to his sister, daughters, successive wives, and mistresses.
Trump enjoys calling women “dogs” and “pigs.” He brags about grabbing women by the “pussy” and kissing them without their permission. He cheated on third wife Melania with porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal. He even allowed radio shock jock Howard Stern to call his daughter Ivanka a “voluptuous”, “piece of ass”.
Nineteen different women have accused Trump of various incidents of sexual misconduct. Of course, Trump says all of them are lying.
Last week, Trump openly mocked Dr. Christine Ford, who took and passed a lie-detector test on her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. As expected, Trump did not ask Kavanaugh to take a lie-detector test on this subject.
Trump also claimed last week that “this is a very scary time for young men in America” because they may have to answer to credible allegations of sexual assault lodged against them by the victims of these assaults.
President Trump and his overseers/cult followers (both male and female) will see to it that you are put in your proper place in Dred Scott Land -- vigorously enforced subjugation in American society. Regardless of your political affiliation and/or socio-economic status in life, you will now join First Lady Melania Trump in her miserable life on President Trump’s plantation.
If you become a sexual assault victim in Trump’s America, may God help you because Donald Trump and his cult followers will not.
As for Sen. Susan Collins, her performance during Friday’s speech in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as the next Supreme Court Justice reminded me of Samuel L. Jackson’s portrayal of the fictional character “Stephen” in “Django”, a 2012 movie about slave life on a brutal Mississippi plantation in the early 1800s. She is as cold and cruel towards you as "Master" Trump.
I am praying that God will send a modern-day “Moses” to lead you out of Dred Scott Land very soon. Meanwhile, do what you can to survive in this place with dignity.
PHOTO: Caricature of an overseer in Donald Trump's version of Dred Scott Land.
Credible Allegations?
It seems the message is, if a woman makes an allegation it is automatically credible along with your guilt
"Trump also claimed last week that “this is a very scary time for young men in America” because they may have to answer to credible allegations of sexual assault lodged against them by the victims of these assaults.
President Trump and his overseers/cult followers (both male and female) will see to it that you are put in your proper place in Dred Scott Land -- vigorously enforced subjugation in American society. Regardless of your political affiliation and/or socio-economic status in life, you will now join First Lady Melania Trump in her miserable life on President Trump’s plantation.
If you…
I hope your survival guide will be even handed and address the hypocrisy, especially from one of the Senators who screamed the loudest.
Do as I say not as I do??
“In order for the FBI investigation regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to be complete, it is imperative the bureau must not only look into the accusations made by Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, it should also examine the veracity of his testimony before the Judiciary Committee,” Bernie Sanders wrote
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bernie-sanders-essay/
Could this be why the kids raised with Tinder glued to their index finger had such a massive support for his Presidential campaign?
Strange .... I haven't seen any inquest into this…
Koda Shepherd,
My Survival Guide for Women is not based upon my status as an American male. It is based upon my experience as an African-American. Women and African-Americans are the two groups who were intentionally left out of the legal protections afforded to white males by the U.S. Constitution, federal and state laws, the colonial codes, and common law principles for hundreds of years.
As a man, you have the luxury of not having to worry about the legal status of women in America. Sure, women have plenty of legal rights today, at least on paper. There real problem is this: Very few people in the civil and criminal justice systems have the interest or courage to enforce …
goodriddance71
To translate into English.
I believe Mr Watkins just said that;
a) Today's modern women probably dont have what it takes to survive.
and
b) From his position of male privilege he is going to tell women how to survive.
Personally I think women are much stronger than many men...in fact most men wouldn't be the men they are today without a good woman by their side as my first and only wife of 39 years can tell you :p
I know my Mother is from the greatest generation, but if she could navigate daily life for 5 years in a Japanese concentration camp in China with NO freedom, and NO rights, where it wasn't unheard of for t…
Koda, can you repeat that in English?