Sensible Sue’s Rhetoric:
Now, before we go clapping for Ghislaine Maxwell’s new deluxe accommodations in Texas, let’s take a little walk down America’s not-so-distant memory lane. You know, back when all it took to destroy entire thriving Black communities was the word of a white woman. No proof. No trial. No receipts. Just a whisper wrapped in racism, and suddenly the torches were lit, the mobs assembled, and the so-called justice system politely stepped aside to let the devastation roll on through.
Let’s start with Oscarville, Georgia. Now, if that name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because Oscarville doesn’t exist anymore. That’s right. It’s gone, erased, wiped clean off the map, and now resting under the cursed waters of Lake Lanier in Forsyth County. Back in the early 1900s, Oscarville was a small but successful Black town. Folks were thriving, working their farms, raising their families, and going to church on Sundays. Meanwhile, white farmers were barely scraping by.
But in 1912, a white teenage girl named Mae Crow was found dead. Almost instantly, two Black teens, Ernest Knox and Oscar Daniel, were accused of the crime. No evidence. No due process. Just racist suspicion and the heat of white rage. A third Black man, Rob Edwards, was dragged from jail, beaten, shot, and hanged in the public square in broad daylight while authorities stood by and did nothing. After that, armed mobs descended upon the Black population of Forsyth County, issuing threats, burning homes, and forcing over a thousand Black residents to flee for their lives. Entire families lost everything overnight. Many even lost their lives.
And what did Georgia do decades later to acknowledge that horrific act of racial cleansing? They flooded the land and turned it into a recreational lake. So, the next time you hear someone say that Lake Lanier is haunted, believe them. It is. It’s haunted by the injustice that was never answered for, by the voices of a community drowned in silence.
Now let’s talk about Emmett Till, fourteen years old. Visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. He was accused by a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, of whistling at her in a grocery store. Let me reiterate my last statement for the folks in the back: A teenager allegedly whistled at a white woman, and that was enough to cost him his life.
Two grown white men, Carolyn’s husband and his half-brother, kidnapped Emmett from his great-uncle’s home in the middle of the night. They beat him so savagely that his eye came out of its socket, they broke nearly every bone in his face, and then they shot him in the head and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan tied around his neck to weigh him down. And for what? Because a white woman lied.
Carolyn Bryant lived a comfortable white privileged life without giving the turmoil she caused a second thought. She finally admitted to her lies decades later, with no fear of consequence. Carolyn Bryant was never held accountable, not here on Earth anyway, for her actions.
Now here’s where I need y’all to stay with me: Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker and a foreign national, who helped one of the world’s most prolific predators, Jeffrey Epstein, build his empire of abuse, is currently sipping her coffee in a low-security prison in Texas, allegedly working on her next appeal and seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. And just a few weeks ago, she met twice with the Deputy U.S. Attorney General. For what? No one will say. They claim there’s no special treatment—but baby, if it walks like privilege and smells like power, it’s probably covering up something foul.
Let’s be very clear: Maxwell is still as dangerous today as she was back when she and Epstein were running their business. She didn’t just hold doors open while Epstein did his damage, she recruited, she groomed, and she delivered underage girls into the hands of powerful men who wanted them vulnerable, voiceless, and invisible. And now, those same powerful people are working overtime to keep her comfortable. Because if Ghislaine Maxwell starts talking? A whole rotten tree might come crashing down, roots and all. That’s why they’re keeping her safe. That’s why they’re making sure she’s cozy. Because if the truth ever gets out, there won’t be enough rugs in D.C. to sweep it under.
And I want to pause here and ask a question that no one in power seems to be willing to answer: Why weren’t her victims notified that she was being moved? Not one letter. Not one phone call. No transparency. No justice. Just quiet paperwork signed behind closed doors while survivors are left in the dark, again. If you still believe this system is built to protect victims, I’ve got beachfront property in Kansas to sell you.
Now let’s zoom out to the bigger picture. In America, white women have historically been given the benefit of the doubt, even when that doubt costs Black people their lives. A white woman caught speeding. “Oh, she was late for yoga.” One caught shoplifting? “She’s having a rough time.” One dealing drugs? “She’s a victim of circumstance.” But a Black woman with a broken taillight? She ends up dead in a jail cell, like Sandra Bland. Pulled over for not signaling a lane change, Sandra was brutalized, arrested, and found hanging in her cell three days later. The official cause of death? Suicide. The actual cause? A system that views Black women as threats before it sees them as human.
Where was Sandra’s second chance? Where was her legal team negotiating conditions of her confinement, like Maxwell’s lawyers are doing with Congress? Oh, that’s right; Black women don’t get deals, they get death certificates and hashtags.
And let’s not forget Breonna Taylor, shot in her own home during a botched police raid. Or Korryn Gaines, killed during a standoff while holding her five-year-old son. If you are Black and female in America, you’re seen as expendable unless your story goes viral, and even then, justice is optional.
But Ghislaine Maxwell? She’s over there living her best locked-up life. Foreign language classes, weekend visitation, arts and crafts. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has turned Alligator Alcatraz in Florida into a death trap for regular folks. People guilty of tax issues, minor offenses, or just being too loud in protest. That’s where the forgotten go to rot. But Ghislaine? She gets a new zip code and the quiet promise of protection.
And now whispers are growing louder that Donald Trump may pardon her. The same man who claims to be the law-and-order president is allegedly entertaining a pardon for the woman who knows exactly which powerful men used Epstein’s “services.” If that happens, parents everywhere need to take stock. Watch over your daughters. Watch over your nieces. Watch over every young girl you love. Because if Maxwell walks free, then the United States of America will have officially told every predator in power all over the world that it’s open season on young girls.
Here’s the truth that folks in power don’t want to admit this isn’t about justice. This is about preservation of secrets, of reputations, of empires built on exploitation, suppression and lies. And the people with the power to protect Ghislaine Maxwell? They’re doing it because they see themselves in her.
But I see the truth. You see the truth. And the entire world needs to see it too.
So, here’s your final word from me: Shake every tree. Shake every system. Rattle every cage. Because the branches are hiding more than just leaves, and some of those branches are rotten straight through.
Stay awake. Stay sensible. And never stop demanding the truth. Until next time, keep it sensible out there, y’all.
