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In reply to the discussion: Chuck Grassley: Native American Juries Are Incapable Of Trying White People Fairly [View all]SoapBox
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Chuck Grassley: Native American Juries Are Incapable Of Trying White People Fairly [View all]
Adenoid_Hynkel
Feb 2013
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currently the Native police are not allowed to arrest a non-indian.Grassley wants rapes and beatings
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#4
In a sane party, this would be the kind of rhetoric that would cause folks to call for you to resign
Adenoid_Hynkel
Feb 2013
#16
There are probably places in Vermont and Maine, both of which are about 98% white.
NYC Liberal
Feb 2013
#58
Why does the state that kept re-electing Tom Harkin keep re-electing THIS guy?
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#26
Oh, so he's acknowledging racism? Does this mean he supports changing our legal system
NC_Nurse
Feb 2013
#31
Grassley is a racist since he surely thinks white juries can try Native Americans "fairly". nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#32
I guess it's all the scalppin' and fire water drinkin' that done did it to them.
Nanjing to Seoul
Feb 2013
#37
Does that mean that white juries are incapable of fairly trying 'Indians', blacks,
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#42
I'm sure next he will call for the release of all the black people convicted by white juries
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2013
#46
effin' Grassley should read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to see if he sees himself among
indepat
Feb 2013
#49