Simple Justice Review

SIMPLE JUSTICE

The book Simple Justice written by Richard Kluger is a comprehensive compilation of history that takes the reader from the inequities of slavery to freedom bells to the forcing of integration in schools and to the roots of laws with heavy affect on Blacks. The story is an unfolding process on how permission to hate caused the disparagement of millions of Blacks in America over nearly three hundred years. Consequently, with no rights bound to be honored the memories of Black people remains a slow fading picture of injustice, degradation and abuse. In essence, we are taught how Blacks were ultimately acknowledged their simple justice.

In the book Simple Justice we can read about the underlying thread of Simple Justice in circular vignettes that distinguish between how slavery and segregation were no longer fashionable thinking as of 1954 when compared to the basic dishonesty underlying the history of how educating blacks separately from whites was justified by the various branches of government. Initially, Kluger places us in the deep South were ownership of Blacks was no different than owning a mule. Readers are confronted with the distasteful presentment of how Black people were perceived as slightly a degree above an animal bred to bid white man’s workload. Later, Kluger demonstrates how passage of the Thirteenth Amendment was intended to free slaves and describes the abolitionist’s efforts in doing so. Here, we learn that the freedom of Blacks was less a humanitarian act than an economic one. The battles between the North and South proved to, in theory, free slaves from bondage but at a cost. While a few good men prophesied that Blacks were created equal by God’s hands, the movement to free Blacks gained momentum spirited by economic and technological innovations such as the railroad, export, import, finance, and the North’s desire for more white immigrants to join America’s workforce to improve our then evolving nation. It was our inspiration...