{"id":14554,"date":"2020-10-21T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2020-10-18T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T14:55:34","slug":"perspective-the-casual-killing-act-of-1669-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/perspective-the-casual-killing-act-of-1669-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PERSPECTIVE: The Casual Killing Act of 1669 &#038; Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t help but be reminded of, and pushed by, Maya Angelou&#8217;s words&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Maya Angelou<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Casual Killing Act of 1669 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/wnet\/slavery\/experience\/living\/docs1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permitted<\/a> any slaver, or white person, to legally murder an enslaved African without consequence when the death were to occur during the execution of punishment per PBS&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/Thirteen.Org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thirteen.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Should a slave be killed as a result of extreme punishment, the master should not face charges for the murder,&#8221; the site states of the law.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Such a policy was supposed to end with the abolishment of slavery. But when Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron deemed Taylor&#8217;s killing justified because shots fired at her were in response to her boyfriend shooting at cops, Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis drew attention to an eerie correlation between The Casual Killing Act and the AG&#8217;s decision not to directly charge officers in her killing. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blavity.com\/the-1669-casual-killing-act-still-seems-like-a-working-policy-when-it-comes-to-black-killings-by-white-hands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/blavity.com\/the-1669-casual-killing-act-still-seems-like-a-working-policy-when-it-comes-to-black-killings-by-white-hands<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t help but be reminded of, and pushed by, Maya Angelou&#8217;s words&#8230; \u201cHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Maya Angelou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":14555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,517,2,18,21,10,518],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14557,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions\/14557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}