The neighbors in their fear and terror became incapable of distinguishing the mad dogs from the not-so-mad dogs. To increase yield and therewith his remuneration - for this was by now a very lucrative business - he penned his trained mad dogs in with the not-so-mad dogs, many of whom themselves became mad and in escaping their confines, threatened the peace. He became an expert at breeding, apprehending, and executing mad dogs. He thereby gained great reputation and honored status among his neighbors who he protected from mad dogs running loose in the streets. Thus began the strange career of Master John whose single-minded purpose in life became that of breeding mad dogs and executing them in self-defense. For that we should honor him, not persecute him.' The jury of his peers found him not guilty. What does it matter how he became mad? What does it matter if one mad dog is no longer disturbing the peace and posing a threat to law and order? Master John did the world a favor. Had he not been a dog he would not have been driven mad in the first place! For, if his master had not shot him the dog would have lived to attack one of us, our wives, our elders, our fair-haired little children. His driving the dog mad and thus allegedly having precipitated the dog's attack as argued by the prosecutor is irrelevant and immaterial! Has not a man the right of self-defense? Besides, he was only a dog prone by dog-nature to go mad. Master John as represented by his lawyer pleaded self-defense - 'It is cut and dried,' his lawyer exhorted! 'The dog was mad and in his madness he sought to attack his master, who in self-defense, shot him. Because there was a law against shooting dogs Master John was tried before a jury of his peers. Master John felled him with a single shot from his elephant gun. One day as fate would deign it, the mad dog attempted to attack its master. I wish he'd just go away.' Filled with hatred and resentment, Master John, by various cruel and ingenious means, drove his dog rabidly mad. All he wants to do is just lie around and eat-up my food. He could be heard often saying - 'He is lazy, a good-for-nothing cur. This situation changed Master John's feelings toward his once prized possession. As the vicissitudes of capitalism would have it, there came a time when there was no longer any money in the show dog business.

The Criminalization of the Black CommunityĪ PARABLE: A man named John once owned a show dog who had won for his master many prizes, helped him to become wealthy, win the envy of his friends, and even helped to save his master's life on a number of occasions. The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination' by Amos Wilson. The following is an excerpt from 'Black on Black Violence.

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