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Running racism in America thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, May 26, 2020.

  1. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Even better.

     
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  2. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Jeez when was this published ? Today?? Hope not.
     
  3. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    All I know about it is what you see. I would hope people would be too aware to publish it today... but you know as well as I do that many are not.
     
  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    2018, which ain’t a whole lot better.

    http://www.miamiherald.com/article210844254.html
     
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Train, prepare, and furnish your "peace officers" as if the country is a warzone and then be surprised when they turn the country into a warzone.
     
  7. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Even Fox is televising the closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    As an academic exercise, would the ACLU publicly take issue with the judges’ denial of the change venue and the fact that the prosecution was overtly using race as an issue in selecting a jury. In a jurisdiction that is 83% and 40% white male, 6 of the 12 jurors are a racial minority and only 2 jurors are white males, as is the defendant. IF the defendant were black male and only 2 of12 jurors was a black male, would there have been media, activist or legal issue?

    A defendant is entitled to a jury of his peers. Only the jury pool needs to be fairly reflective of the jurisdiction. The prosecution, activists and community aren’t entitled to a jury that reflects the demographics of the community or is representative of the victim. The ACLU, whose membership is disproportionately Jewish and whose funding comes disproportionately fromJewish donors, has never been shy about representing Nazis, actual and wannabe. But they are deadly silent when certain defendants are on trial.
     
  9. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Fucker is a pretty snappy dresser for a cop
     
  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Prosecutor ended his first closing argument with this line:

    "You can believe your eyes."

    ... which is pretty much the perfect bookend to the line Donald Williams used:

    " ... Like the fish in the bag."


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    But more important, "You can believe your eyes" is the perfect line to kill the Trumpian Orwell era and should be said a lot more right now.
     
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  11. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    I’ve nicknamed the defense attorney Lyin’ Reynolds.
     
  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    In which I call your attention to the Orwell quote in my sig.
     
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