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7. Perhaps in the years since the author has come to understand how the judge could ask that,

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 09:29 PM

Jul 2013

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to have such an assumption.

If white folk were treated like blacks (arrested in greater numbers, jailed and with higher sentences - hell, black folk with the same credit, same jobs were even charged higher interest rates in the screwing the banks did to all of us which caused the financial crisis of the past few years), it would be resolved in a week.

During last week's lynching ( know everyone calls it a trial but the outcome is so similar I have trouble telling the difference) I briefly caught a glimpse of a chart that Mark O'Mara put up in the courtroom, showed a bunch of arrests for crimes in Sanford, ALL black men. While some took that as evidence of a problem, I found myself asking why they only arrested black men, because it strains credulity to think that white people don't commit crimes there as well.

Great post, btw.

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Very revealing post from another board I frequent. [View all] MoonRiver Jul 2013 OP

Thanks. bvar22 Jul 2013 #1

+ reusrename Jul 2013 #2

Kind of like Christopher Columbus "found" America. tclambert Jul 2013 #4

They were all just a bunch of ignorant savages until Chris showed up Orrex Jul 2013 #14

perfect! MoonRiver Jul 2013 #8

yahoo news heaven05 Jul 2013 #9

how do you know the woman in the left photo is white? She looks a lot like one of my closest KittyWampus Jul 2013 #13

Really? 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2013 #17

Yes, really. She moved away to D.C. in 11th grade. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #39

I also know someone whose skin is white as white can be Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #21

Is that you Juror 37? Tutonic Jul 2013 #25

Now why would you want to paint me as a racist rube? Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #34

Doesn't matter. The person in the back is white Gormy Cuss Jul 2013 #32

um ... wooosh! Kali Jul 2013 #51

excuse me? do you have some relevant comment to make? KittyWampus Jul 2013 #52

your comment about the woman who might be black yet looked white Kali Jul 2013 #53

Sorry, but that photo gets used with the assumption both people are white. You can make a secondary KittyWampus Jul 2013 #54

+1000 Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #28

I talked to a guy loyalsister Jul 2013 #33

Many people who were stranded NOLALady Jul 2013 #55

The same guy talked about standing on a roof of a high rise with helicopter flying over loyalsister Jul 2013 #57

I have not doubt that "looters" kept them alive loyalsister Jul 2013 #58

Nailed it. ctsnowman Jul 2013 #37

Wow! tofuandbeer Jul 2013 #48

If you want a good laugh, check the archives and see what some DUers were saying then... Blue_Tires Jul 2013 #49

From Snopes oberliner Jul 2013 #56

zero tolerance hopemountain Jul 2013 #3

Yes, I just wish I knew how to combat this monster better. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #6

we combat this by making sure we do not tolerate hopemountain Jul 2013 #11

exactly... Bully Taw Jul 2013 #24

Patience.. SomethingFishy Jul 2013 #59

if we do something about it now hopemountain Jul 2013 #62

I so agree, especially with you last clause. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #63

Agree, zero tolerance. mountain grammy Jul 2013 #40

that's heaven05 Jul 2013 #5

Perhaps in the years since the author has come to understand how the judge could ask that, jtuck004 Jul 2013 #7

jtuck004, it wasn't me who had this experience. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #10

I realized that after I posted it. But yeah. Although the one that I think persuaded most of jtuck004 Jul 2013 #15

Yeah, there is. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #16

No mystery to me Warpy Jul 2013 #12

yep grasswire Jul 2013 #60

Telling, indeed. snort Jul 2013 #18

I've been asked that question by ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2013 #19

this shit makes me angry Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #27

And I am sad to say nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #20

I had the same reaction while watching Levar Burton on CNN talk about 'when [he] get's pulled over' apnu Jul 2013 #22

Omg. To think Levar Burton needs to act in such a way.. RedCappedBandit Jul 2013 #29

Right!? apnu Jul 2013 #30

In his speech yesterday at the NAACP convention, Holder mentions it happening to him MoonRiver Jul 2013 #35

And while he was a federal prosecutor no less!! nt 2naSalit Jul 2013 #44

I don't see how any man kalisto2010 Jul 2013 #23

Are you serious? Tutonic Jul 2013 #26

WTF?!? No male in my family has ever been arrested Raine Jul 2013 #61

It is very easy. Just obey the law. Just thge opposite is true, few are arrested. Coyotl Sep 2013 #64

2 teen boys, one white, one black tblue Jul 2013 #31

There's a lot of research about how racism takes hold in the subconscious. MoonRiver Jul 2013 #36

K & R ctsnowman Jul 2013 #38

Maybe the judge is aware daybranch Jul 2013 #41

That's what I would have wondered as well, reflection Jul 2013 #45

I believe this story oldandhappy Jul 2013 #42

the insidiousness of racism, and its acceptance noiretextatique Jul 2013 #43

What judge is really asking .... zentrum Jul 2013 #46

We are all filled with these perceptions zipplewrath Jul 2013 #47

We've got to be carefully taught locks Jul 2013 #50