Posted on 06/10/2019 3:13:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
How long is a minute, exactly?
Common Pleas Court Judge Kai Scott, thinking of courtroom scenarios, offered the phrase: “She was there for a minute.”
“A person who’s hearing it could think that person meant an actual minute,” Scott said. “But a minute, if you’re in the black community, could be an hour. It could be six hours. A minute is a long time.”
Situations like these were on the table last week at “Why Language Matters,” a closed event for Philly judges. Dozens of judges filled the room to workshop issues of miscomprehension of African American English.
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The study raised serious concerns about errors in court records, but also, legal experts observed, about language access in the court system.
“That was a big theme — that everyone deserves to have equal access to justice,” Scott, who co-chairs the Board of Judges’ judicial education committee, said of Thursday’s event. “If this is something that’s an impediment to equal access to justice, we need to figure out what we need to do to make sure that it’s not.”
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“.....and he yelled “No!” “
Is it up to the judge to clarify whether “just a minute” is a clock minute or something else? (Note to judge: the expression exists in the white community also).
I would think it would be up to the attorneys arguing the case to pin down whether “just a minute” was a clock minute or something else. Otherwise instructions from to the jury would take forever.
IOW, they’re saying blacks are so stupid they can’t tell time.
Today, on FOX Sports, there was an interview with a black teen who’s team won a TX UIL High School soccer game. She was happy they won but had to ask what that thing was they’d won. It’s a trophy! How embarrassing. Hope they don’t engrave it in cursive.
I could tell if a report was written by my boss. He spoke and wrote in Ebonics. Ridiculous he rose up the ranks but we all know why.
Splaying 2 Yawl:
“I’m coming back at 9:00, and I mean 9:00 WPT.” He leaves and Maude asks Florida, what’s “WPT”? Florida responds “White People Time. If he didn’t mean 9:00 sharp he would have said CPT. That’s Colored People Time. Which means ‘shuffle on in when you feel like it’”.
Madame Bobblehead thought that joke was
Hillary-ous: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-bill-de-blasio-criticized-for-race-based-joke/
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