Posted on 04/07/2013 6:43:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The legacy of the “Scottsboro Boys” is secure: The nine black teens were wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago in one of America’s most infamous racial tragedies. Alabama is now moving to repair its own legacy, and correct past injustices, with a bill to allow posthumous pardons for the group.
On Thursday, the state House voted 103-0 in favor of legislation setting up a procedure to pardon the teens, who were falsely accused of rape by two white women in 1931. The Senate had passed the bill earlier, 29-0. Gov. Robert Bentley has indicated he will sign it. “This is great for Alabama. It was long overdue,” said Democratic state Rep. Laura Hall of Huntsville, who sponsored the bill in the House.
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Because God knows that the Alabama legislature has nothing more important to do than to pass meaningless gestures.
And now we do the flip side with the Zimmerman case!
It might be meaningless to you, but its not meaningless to their families. Why is righting a past wrong (or at least attempting to) a bad thing?
It costs nothing and it's not as if they're splitting the atom there. And if this gesture helps sustain Alabama's challenge to the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court, so much the better...
I agree. It doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming but give the families some peace.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
I didn't say it was a bad thing. I said it was a meaningless gesture. The last one died thirty-odd years ago. What good does this do him now?
And if that's their purpose then the gesture becomes even more meaningless.
Their descendants presumably have a stake in this.
They should have been pardoned long ago. Now, can we draw some attention to the actual rapes going on as we speak?
Welcome to Free Republic.
/johnny
TV movie made about it back in 1976. The script was written to show they were innocent.
Victoria Price, one of the women who claimed to be raped, sued the producers for libel and invasion of privacy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074723/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BPric.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_price.html
There was a story about a Korean War Chaplain who was awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday. He died over 60 years ago. What good did that do him now?
You don't see any difference between the two?
women don’t lie about being raped. ever ever ever.
Kinda like Ramos and Compean.
I’m sure they were happy to get out of prison but the convictions never should have happened in the first place.
Just how do they know they were innocent?
I would not trust any media investigation made in the last 50 years involving race.
By your logic, no. One is honored for his past deeds, and one has his name cleared. Regardless, they’re both dead. Why are you so opposed to this?
Nothing in the story indicates the descendants were involved. Just some Democrat.
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