Posted on 12/28/2014 2:41:02 PM PST by artichokegrower
Only to racists.
For the author to suggest that black people think differently than anyone else is the acme of racism.
...and no more than 13%. The same holds for government “”workers”, the postal “workers”, EBT card recipients, Medicaid recipients and so forth. Equal representation.
Agreed...justice should be blind to race or creed...
I read about this somewhere a few years back. This author claimed that for the number of qualified blacks coming out of law school, the private firms were snapping them up at higher pay than public office could afford.
Not being stupid, these people went with the money.
Hard to find a non-felon or non-congenital idiot among their ranks.
What about folks like Obama? Does he count as “White” or “Black”?
Do we need to revive the Jim Crow or South African Apartheid percentage scales?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html
Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition by F. James Davis
F. James Davis is a retired professor of sociology at Illinois State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition (1991), from which this excerpt was taken.
Reprinted with permission of Penn State University Press
The One-Drop Rule Defined
“To be considered black in the United States not even half of one’s ancestry must be African black. But will one-fourth do, or one-eighth, or less? The nation’s answer to the question ‘Who is black?” has long been that a black is any person with any known African black ancestry. This definition reflects the long experience with slavery and later with Jim Crow segregation. In the South it became known as the “one-drop rule,’’ meaning that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person a black. It is also known as the “one black ancestor rule,” some courts have called it the “traceable amount rule,” and anthropologists call it the “hypo-descent rule,” meaning that racially mixed persons are assigned the status of the subordinate group. This definition emerged from the American South to become the nation’s definition, generally accepted by whites and blacks. Blacks had no other choice. As we shall see, this American cultural definition of blacks is taken for granted as readily by judges, affirmative action officers, and black protesters as it is by Ku Klux Klansmen.”
Personally, I have had it and fed up with black “this” and black “that.” Follow the Constitution whatever your color, and justice will follow as well as imperfect human beings can administer it.
the greater problem is lack of any death penalty or a death penalty with timely executions
13% of prosecutors should be black. Same for doctors, scientists, lawyers, elected politicians, PHD’s, writers..............
You left out NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL players. No the NHL is not large enough in numbers or salary to make up for the other three sports.
there is no black homogeneity. there is no black community
there are a series of black subcultures the largest of which is the criminal urban thug culture that includes most folks greater than roughly 15
A better headline would change the fourth word to prosecutions.
So what end game? Nobody outside the race of the defendant can be remotely involved in the legal process of an incident?
And we might even have a black guy in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, that should make them feel unpersecuted!
Oh wait....never mind.
Lets just make ALL government employees black to avoid ANY hint of unequal treatment!
All the white people, asian people, brown people, red people...they’ll be OK with that I’m sure.
We’ll do it in the name of Equality.
The whole premise of the article is racist. If there is a problem with prosecutors in the context of instances of potential police misconduct, it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with the prosecutor’s job being essentially an extension of the job of the police with whom he or she thus has a close working relationship.
Quite frankly since the whole point of our procedural civil right is to restrain the power of the state in protection of our natural rights, a lot of them should not apply to persons acting as agents of the state when doing so. It should be easier to return an indictment against a police officer or other state functionary on suspicion of official misconduct than it is to return one against an ordinary citizen suspected of a crime, rather than the other way around as it is now.
When will whites wake up? No matter what you think race matters.
Blacks are wedded to the notion that the problem of Black crime in America is anything - anything at all - but a matter of lawless and uncivilized Blacks.
“For the sake of color-blindness of the law we must have strict racial representation in the district attorney’s office. Any other approach then hiring DAs by skin color means the law is not color blind.”
Did you forget the /sarc tag?
Yeah.
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