Posted on 01/23/2015 9:08:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Or it could be that whites, on average, just don’t get in as much trouble as other communities.
Generally speaking, unless you have done a serious crime, judges tend to give lenient sentences for first time offenders.
It’s when you start to get to the point of being a first name basis with the bailiff do judges start to come down hard.
“Olbermann enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16”
“Olbermann graduated from Cornell’s School of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in Communication.”
A “BS” indeed!
I'd like to see a nice Christian girl with values get the same treatment but then again a nice Christian girl wouldn't be selling heroin and messing with the drug trash.
I can't help it if leftist silver spooners go to college there.
I guess that BHO must have used Black Privilege.
She has to play the white guilt card to the hilt so she can maintain her street cred and ease her conscience.
From then on she can live as a liberal hypocrite like all the rest do.
She got the endorsements because of Liberal Privilege. Do not look to the actions of the person, look to the espoused political ideology.
Can you post a link to some of that fabled data?
There was a newspaper spread in the last couple weeks in the DAILY HERALD for Dupage County in IL which showed the winners of some kind of leadership award. Of maybe 15 recipients, 14 were female, and the lone male was of course nonwhite, some kind of Asian, I think. Whatever.
We’re on our own here, men!
what is fishy here & not explained is about her financial standing with the university.
Let’s assume this woman finished up her course work under
a previous financial agreement or was she self-pay?
Anyone who wants to attend college here in the US must complete the FAF and on that form there is a question about
drugs and arrests / aka/ felony charges.
To the best of my knowledge an individual cannot receive FA from any institution if they have a felony record.
so thanks for reading my thoughts that i’ve posted and hopefully someone with a better scope of FA for college
would kindly respond.\\
To me it’s hard to believe she was actually allowed to graduate unless of course her mommy & daddy has beau coup bucks
Assume for the sake of argument that she is correct in her assertion. Is it controversial to say that such a thing is patently wrong? It shouldn't be.
Wrong is wrong. And if there's a disparity in sentencing with respect to race, age, sex, or any other criteria, then we, as conservatives who cherish justice, should be passionate about the issue.
Now don't forget: I prefaced this rant by saying "assume for the sake of argument she is correct". Now, she might not be correct; but given the fact that there is a documented history of racial discrimination in this country, especially within the legal system (mores than with individuals, IMHO) we should not be so naive as to dogmatically dismiss such assertions. They are certainly not out of the realm of possibility, and it would be very wrong to be in denial about the potential for such abuses.
This is where I think that some of us sometimes leave the path of wisdom, becoming too knee-jerk and strident in our presumptions. We're so hypersensitive to the gross exaggerations of race-baiters like Al Sharpton and his ilk who see inherent racism in every white person, that we become too-willing to dismiss such injustices when they actually do rear their ugly head within the system itself.
As another example, consider the numerous cases we've recently seen regarding absolutely wrongful convictions that have occurred, against a wide array of defendants, regardless of race.
Sadly, in my experience, when the facts are reviewed, it rarely turns out to be simply a case of prosecutorial or judicial error or incompetence.
On the contrary: it often appears to be palpable, criminal misconduct on the part of prosecutors or judges.
"Unequal protection" and/or outright criminal misconduct is antithetical to what the American justice system should be, and we should be just as desirous of cleaning up this horrible aspect of "the system" as we are regarding any other corruption.
What I'm trying to say is that, since we've seen plenty of examples of the system being abused by those who hold power within it, we should be hyper-vigilant about "equal protection under the law" and related issues.
IMHO, doing so doesn't convey any additional credibility to charlatans like Al Sharpton. We know it's not as prevalent as he would have us believe. We know that most people, white or black, are decent and fair, and do not exhibit bigoted attitudes towards other races. In other words, most Americans are simply that— true Americans.
But if and when we do see systemic injustice, we should be very aggressive about eliminating it, and holding responsible those who would foment it by abusing the formidable power they have been granted.
End rant.
It’s still a honky thing to hope. How unfair.
The proof that the difficulty for minorities is about sin, not skin, is seen in recent immigrants from Africa. Although clearly black, they don’t hang their hopes on any kind of subsidy or dole.
It might also be, even while the system is what it is, that she had indulged in the drug scene less deeply than her typical black counterpart.
The system as is, is fairly lenient to small users caught with enough for only a trip or two. And does not even penalize users who are intoxicated but have no extra drugs on their person. A slap on the wrist and rehab is the ticket back out of the revolving door. Those who amass enough drugs to be deemed dealers are punished more severely.
When will it dawn on our victimocracy that if you can’t lick them, join them? Act white and voila, now you can have “white privilege” too no matter the hue of your skin.
She decries white privilege, but but she sure as hell took advantage of it! If she was truly against white privilege, she would go back to prison with her homies.
There is the lie perpetrated in the black community that evil whitey only gives you one chance. Well then, they’ll have to explain the black perps with mile-long rap sheets only curtailed after they kill somebody and are either sentenced to a long term in prison or killed themselves.
“To me it’s hard to believe she was actually allowed to graduate unless of course her mommy & daddy has beau coup bucks”
I did not read the article, but from what I’m seeing in the comments after she got out of prison she only need to take 2 classes to finish her degree. You wouldn’t need financial aid to do that.
Sh## for brains
Olbermann is a classic example of Reagan’s accurate observation that “leftists know so much...that isn’t true”.
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