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If crime there has been in consequence of this deplorable, this terrible fact who is the ultimate criminal?
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “If crime there has been in consequence of this deplorable, this terrible fact who is the ultimate criminal?”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké provocatively asks who should be held accountable for the societal crimes resulting from racial injustice.
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He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.
I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
It is true examples of disinterested benevolence and individual sacrifices are numerous, particularly in the Southern States; but no systematic, vigorous, and successful measures have been made to overthrow this fabric of oppression.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?