Posted on 03/29/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT by kingattax
ATLANTA -- Judge Marvin Arrington insists he's not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday.
The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom.
"I came out and saw the defendants, about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and some point time I excused some of the lawyers, most of them white, and said to the young people in here 'What in the world are you doing with your lives,'" he told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter JaQuitta Williams.
Arrington said he thought his message might have more power if it was delivered to a blacks-only audience.
"I didn't think about racism or reverse racism, I practiced law for 30 years and 75 percent of my partners were white," he explained.
The judge said the majority of people who appear before him accused of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery are black and he wanted to do something about it, one on one.
"I didn't want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying 'Please get yourself together,'" he said.
Arrington added that he may make a similar speech next week, but this time he'll allow everyone to hear it.
what kind of hell would erupt if a white judge wanted to talk to a WHITES-ONLY audience in a courtroom ? this politically correct double standard crap has to stop. maybe obama needs to make another speech.
If he wasn’t an idiot he would have said he wanted to talk to the young men without any attorneys and left race out of it.
But that would be unlike him.
Actually, his explanation makes perfect sense to me. I support what he did. That's probably the first dressing-down most of those men have received in their lives.
this judge is right on target...it is ironic how pc crap has just gotten so out of control you can’t even do something good anymore.
Unless the good judge is willing to adopt all those young men as step children,there is really nothing he can do to change their fate.
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Clearly another clueless racist authority figure adding to the
problem.
BTW- Afro American???
I thought that was a racist term replaced by Black, replaced by african american...
“I didn’t want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying ‘Please get yourself together’”
This judge is a piece of garbage.
Instead of pleading with criminals he needs to lock their As@#$ up for as long as the law allows.
I’m getting sick of this!
I agree. He’s upset with his race. Liberalism is a basis for this form of slavery.
So there were 1,000 defendants in the room, and one was a non-black?
Someone needs to have said this. If these kids had FATHERS, it wouldn’t have to be a judge.
I’m with you. So what he sent the whites or whomever out...he was trying to make a point to the defendants, some of which have probably never had any male authority figure talk to them like that. I hope he made an impression on one or more of them.
I think his intentions are good, but it still makes him seem color oriented... Because why don’t whites and asians deserve the same talk about get yourself together? Don’t they merit the same concern? I like the judge giving a talk like this, but everyone deserves it regardless of color.
A Reverend Wright in a Robe
I can't remember more than three or four times in 26 years that happened. I never heard of a case, or saw one where the judge, sua sponte] sealed the courtroom himself.
Actually, legally, that's going to be far, far worse for him.
I wonder what would happen to me if I said “OK, All The Blacks Out Of The Courtroom”......
May have had a bit more of an impact with the whole "just us guys here".
If he got through to one of them, then I think he did the right thing. However, I doubt that he made a dent.
One very interesting thing about recent black controvery, from Rev. Wright to this Judge’s racist attitude, is that it appears to be causing liberal Whites in this country to finally get over their delusional affinity to liberal guilt over past slavery. If you look around you hard enough you will see signs of this shift. Notice how the bottom two from the publics voting on the last American Idol were both Black. Not sure you would have seen this last year. Oh, my brother’s wife and step daughter, both liberal teachers that have always voted Democrat and were Obama supporters, following the Wright fiasco have said they intend this time to vote for McCain...even though voting Republican for the first time is causing them some distress. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
“So what he sent the whites or whomever out...he was trying to make a point to the defendants, some of which have probably never had any male authority figure talk to them like that. I hope he made an impression on one or more of them.”
Criminals deserve no sympathy!! I don’t care how they were raised.
What you are saying spits in the face of many black men that had no father, but still live a life that is upstanding.
There’s no excuse for committing criminal acts.
Or did he says "white lawyers out, black lawyers can stay" (not OK)?
I think that’s what the judge was trying to tell them.
“Afro American???
I thought that was a racist term replaced by Black, replaced by african american...”
I think Afram is next in line.
Racial issues aside, it is unethical-if not illegal-for a judge to address a defendant outside the presence of his attorney. It violates, among other things, the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel.
What is a JaQuitta?
Why couldn't you be derogatory to a criminal? God forbid you should insult a mugger or burglar.
Who the heck does he think he's kidding?
It seems to me he can give each one of his customers a special individualized speech, when he gives each one a long sentence as he protects society from these predators.
Right on target, between the....well maybe I should outa just stop there.
Many of these kids don’t have MOTHERS.
At least if you define that word as a loving,nurturing caregiver.
“I think that’s what the judge was trying to tell them.”
Maybe you don’t know how these criminals think:
THEY DON’T LISTEN TO WORDS!!!!
A judge needs to do his or her duty, lock them up if they are guilty, nothing else!
banana?
He didn't kick the lawyers out because they were white, he did it because they were lawyers. Anywhere but in a court of law I would have no problem with that. But throwing a defendant's legal representation out of court is a clear violation of their rights (barring contempt citations which would be a special case).
He's not a racist. He's just a really bad judge.
However in this charged post IR-Reverent Wright episode anything with race is very very sentitive, and most white folks I know dont want to have much to do with black churches anymore.
It is unfortunately utterly useless. These are hopeless slaves on the democrat plantation. Their lives have been destroyed by democrat party teachers unions, public housing projects, and welfare.
It was probably the first time any of them had someone attempt to "parent" them.....their real parents should see jail time for "parental negligence".
The problem of bad parents, bad schools and bad leadership is compounding the problems for blacks....and America.
Obama and Rev. Wright are no solution - they feed on, and stoke, the misguided discontent of young black people.
You can Quitta makin' fun o' her name!
For those wondering, Marvin is a Democrat who was at one time the President of the Atlanta City Council and was appointed by Governor Roy Barnes (D) to his current position on the bench.
And so you know, he has shown himself to be as African American centric as Andy Young and the late Maynard Jackson. He is simply one of the black community’s answers to the “good old boys”.
Some I my best friends are white. Really.
That said, I was at first blush aghast, but then it started to make sense. Nothing else makes an impression on these hoodlums. And if they have Rev. Wright for a pastor, well, I'm sure their days are marked by who sells the most dope to whitey to get money into the hood to empower Blacks and pay for Rev. Wright's new home.
Just maybe a tongue lashing from such a person may sink in.
You've spent too much time on your tax return. Give it a break.
Ever hear of "a figure of speech"....it is an effective tool used by some of the best public speakers. And in this case, sadly, probably close to the truth when considering the total number of defendents in Atlanta courts and Atlanta's demographics.
The black matriarchy Moynihan talked about forty years ago is almost complete now.
I am lately seeing more and more young black men involved with white,Mexican and Asian girls who will”let me be a man”in the traditional sense.
Way too many of”the sisters”try to dominate and run the show,which is why the young black men are less and less willing to see them as even POSSIBLE marriage material.
And thats not even mentioning the fact that marriage itself is an endangered institution everywhere now.
One cant be African-American if one has never stepped on African soil
saying it the way it is cause no one else will
Uh-oh. We have a judge showing common sense.
Good for him. The PC nonsense going on in this country is going to kill us all- I don’t think this was the least bit racist.
There’s a BIG difference between what this judge did and said and the Jeremiah Wright’s of this world.
It didn’t say he gave them a good talking to and then set them free. Calm the heck down.
I agree. Bill Cosby has tried to preach the message, but he's ignored because his message doesn't carry the "I'm-a-victim-of-white-racism" that Jesse, Al, Jerry and all the rest spout. Blacks need to get off the "victim" mentality and start fixing their problems themselves. Jesse and Al's approach of throwing my money at their problems doesn't work because they don't want it to work...they'd be out of business if it did.
As to the poison Jerry spits each Sunday, he reinforces the victim mentality by blaming whites for all black problems. Sorry, Jerry, your dog $hit in your house. You need to clean it up yourself.
Our MSM has conditioned us to do so
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