Department of Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series Dalitso Ruwe Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University The Barbarous Decision of the United StateS Supreme Court & Disrobing the Colored Race of All Civil Protection n this presentation I will explore Bishop ISupreme Henry McNeal Turner’s critique of the Court ruling against the 1875 Civil Tuesday, April 21st 3:45pm in YMCA 401 Dalitos Ruwe is currently an M.A. student in the Department of Philosophy. He earned his undergraduate degree in Anthropology from California State University, Fresno. His areas of interest include Hip Hop Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Existentialism, PostColonialism, Critical Race Theory. Event sponsored by the Department of Philosophy Rights Bill. Examining the Post Emancipation area and the fight to include Blacks as citizens under the Federal and State constitutions, Turner’s critique of the Supreme Court ruling shows that legal amendments such as the 13th,14th , 15th amendments and the Civil Rights Bill fails to protect the legal rights of the freedmen as they entered civil society from whites . Consequently, Turner’s critique exposes the foundation of American civil society that enables whites to have “social rights” that exist outside legal codes which enable them to determine politics, discrimination, and violence against blacks that is reinforced by the inability of the law to persecute whites. Given this, Turners critique forces us to question; If legal codes cant persecute whites, but are the very tools blacks must use to appeal for their rights to be recognized, how do Blacks find justice in a white supremacy society?