The incident with Brian Nichols spans a wide spectrum of problems facing Black men in America where it pertains to justice and social image. Beginning with a failed relationship and ending with a possible death by execution or life imprisonment. Ironically included, however, is the ending relationship with he and the white female who turned him in. Through it all though, the actions of Nichols either confounded or testified against white America.

Initially tried for rape against his ex-girlfriend, a hung jury (8 in favor of acquittal and 4 against), questions the authenticity of the accuser from the start: a helpful variable in determining the effectiveness of the American Justice system. Could it be just another case of feminist-correctness against a man (a Black man), as a throwback of Jim Crow and "the rape of the white woman?"

Even though in this case the girlfriend was allegedly Black, there is not much difference from the Jim Crow theory simply because the Black woman has become a weapon in the modern day Crow's destruction of the Black man. Evidently, Nichols supposed the jury was given a second chance to judge him, only this time he knew they would carry out Crow's plan. According to the Prosecutor's words and many cable news experts and pundits, the jury was headed toward conviction.

Thus, now we know that Nichols had a motive to what he did. The anger that sieged him boiled from what he felt, or knew, was the fire of injustice being lit beneath him. He reacted according to how anyone would react when wrongfully persecuted by a system that has a history of wrongful conviction of Black men.

Not much thought was taken in his actions, nor was there a long drawn out plan, just a mutinous impulse against the deed of obvious oppression, much like a runaway slave. Though there was a law against being a runaway, human dignity rises above any man's law, and that stems from the spirit of human integrity. He killed and would kill again, until he felt his point was made. The point being, he was not going out like a punk.

He admitted hitting the first deputy, "I hit her really hard. Lord, I'm sorry . . .. I hope she lives." It was at this point his anger had reached its peak. Had it been a man his age, he probably would have killed him. Afterward, his anger drove him into the courtroom and he directed that anger toward those he knew possessed the power to crucify him, the judge and indirectly, the court reporter. Though she was only a court reporter, she may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The point is, Nichols knew exactly what point he was attempting to make.

Afterward, he made his escape, and yes, startled by the second deputy, he was not about to let anyone make his point null and void. All condolences to the families of the victims, but American justice is on trial and if innocent people get hurt, compared to Iraq and all the innocent people killed in America's world conquest, the justice of Democracy MUST be served.

Hours after Nichols' rebellion, the American media compared him to animals of different species, disgusting elements of the earth, and equated him to the enemy they fight to this day, terrorist. In there analysis of Brian Nichols, they were confounded, dismayed, and obviously in serious denial about why he would commit such atrocious acts in a rage of mayhem.

Never once did they ever consider - or better put - want to admit that injustice was the key component in his rampage. They would rather attribute animal-like characteristics to Nichols instead of put on trial their own system of law and justice. They went as far as to give praise and glory to law enforcement and to reflect on the goodness of the judge and the other victim, yet they never once put into question the wrong the entire system was doing this one human being.

Hours went by during the "hunt" and the media continued to hide behind the cloak of denial and arrogance. They refused to report on the bogus rape trial while continuing to question the motives of Nichols. Nichols, being a Black man, had more to do with their method of reporting than anything because at the same time, a white guy in Wisconsin had opened fire at a church (of Christian worship) killing more people than Nichols and he was never referred to as anything but distraught.

Finally, Nichols gave up: they did not catch him; he gave up. The hostage, Ashley Smith, was not a hero simply because he could have killed her if he wanted, but he did not want to. He was ready, by his own will, to stop the violence. He felt, by this time, that he had made his point. After watching himself on the news nation wide, he himself could not believe what was going on. "I've had a really long day," was the extent of his feelings.

Ashley was simply a person who was caught in the height of the action, if it had not been her, it would have been someone else. Nichols was ready to stop and needed an out. Though she catered to what he was feeling at the time, he never had any intension on hurting her unless she had done what the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had done, which was resist his commands.

She, being a human being and not an automaton of bureaucracy, communicated with Nichols and even felt his pain. She was in no position to do anything else but sympathize with what was going on, she herself knew that Nichols had become nothing more than a victim of the America injustice system. The fact that she was able to relate to this man more than the Ivy League brats, law enforcement experts, and even the ex-girlfriend herself, was because she was given no choice but to listened and judged accordingly, not systematically.

This is what Black men face in America; distrust, a preconceived image of animalism, and stereotypical media portrayals of anything lower than the white male himself. What is more ironic is that the white female connected with the Black man better than anyone else in the ordeal. Not to say that this solidifies any standard relationship between Black men and white women, but are Black men to trust anyone where it pertains to feeling him?

The Black woman have all but relinquished the relationship of the Black man and have gone the way of the white male and his legal theories against him. If there were a point made by Nichols, it would be that the Black man is on his own in this society and no Black man should submit to the injustice of the American judicial system, but testify against it. In his own words, "I feel like I'm a warrior - that people of my color have gone through a lot."

More power to brother Nichols and the message he sent. If there is a God, judgment will come forth on his actions as well as those of the American Justice system.

Source From: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150323,00.html

© 2005 By CR Hamilton