As a matter of fact...
Posted on 07/23/2013 6:31:33 AM PDT by rktman
I heard a defense attorney say that while she believed in the jury process and felt that they had reached the right decision, “George Zimmerman being found not guilty does not mean he is innocent.”
The first thing that came to my mind is every client she has should fire her and that no one should employ her services ever again. Imagine, your defense attorney, for which you have paid handsomely, wins your case and then does an interview where she suggests that even though you were found not guilty it doesn’t mean you’re innocent.
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It’s a lot like the gay issue. I really don’t want to generalize because there are members of both groups that don’t fit this description.
But if you see yourself as “black” or “gay” first and everything else afterwards - you’ll come to one set of opinions and indeed facts.
If you see yourself as a man, or a woman, or an American that just happens to be black or gay or whatever, your conclusions will be completely different.
The demagogues on the issue of race, sexuality and other issues *want* you to think in this narrow way. The challenge is to not fall for this trap.
Slavery and the attitude that it spawned was awful, no 2 ways about it. Maybe we should start a fund to send some of the race baiters back to Africa where they could see the squalor, disease and cruelty for themselves. They might preach a different tune when they came back.
I have thought long and hard on this. About how things used to be and how they were now. Simply, it has been over a century since slavery. It has been over 45 years since the laws allowing blacks full access. I am sick and tired of every problem that blacks have now, it is whites fault. Basically, it is time for blacks to admit that what problems they have are self inflicted. Just like any white person that chooses to do nothing with his life, blacks have to accept the same results of that non action. It is time to quit being the dimocrat ATM punch ticket. I made something of my life by working for it. No one gave me a danged thing. The military certainly did not give me anything. They did not promote me cause I was a good guy. I got promoted for results. Blacks need to do the same. Quit being a yes man to the dimocrats and the race war lords like Sharpton and Jackson. While they hord their millions, these blacks remain the slums.
Hannity asked the woman why she thinks George Zimmerman is a racist after he has a history of mentoring blacks, stood up for a homeless black man who was beaten by Sanford cops, and even dated a black woman.
The woman answered that she thinks there is a thing called "situational racism."
Hannity should have stopped her right there to say that by her rules, MLK is a racist, too, because it's no longer about the content of your character that was built up over a lifetime; it's now about the next "situation" only.
If we accept the notion of "situational racism," then everyone is just one "situation" away from being a racist. We no longer have to worry about building up a lifetime of bona fides, it's "what have you done for me lately" to them.
Everyone must now live in fear of the next "situation."
-PJ
"Blacks" aren't anything.
Unless, of course, one subscribes to the belief that they are issued opinions and world views because of their skin color...or as one black conservative stated:
I have come here today not in anger or to anger, though my mere presence has been sufficient, obviously, to anger some. Nor have I come to defend my views, but rather to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I’m black. I come to state that I’m a man, free to think for myself and do as I please.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/defence-of-conservatism/
I despair when I consider the lot of black conservatives, even on such websites as Free Republic. Any who would call "blacks" blind, consider the life of the man quoted above, Justice Clarence Thomas...or ask if you consider yourself the intellectual equal of Thomas Sowell.
It is bigoted to assign views to individual blacks, whether it be done on the part of so-called civil rights leaders or in the context of a Free Republic thread.
Stop it, please.
Judge Judy snapped at some guy with the same type of comment when he said he was "found innocent".
Good thing it wasn't me as I would have blown up, along with my case. My reply" This is America. In America, a person is innocent until proven guilty - ergo I was not found guilty, so I am innocent. Stating there is a difference implies that I am guilty, the ambitious prosecutor just didn't have his act together. It is this kind of semantic tap-dancing which makes the public distrust the legal profession."
He should have stuck around for the Hutus and Tutsi “fracas”.
Possibly it’s semantic nit-picking, but the “not guilty = innocent” idea is often misused.
If the prosecution is not able to convince the jury to convict, some defendants will then turn around and say they were proven innocent, as if the jury determined they didn’t do what they were accused of. The problem is that the jury made no such determination.
I suppose such a determination could be added to a jury’s options, meaning they would have three potential verdicts: guilty, not guilty (not proven) and innocent (jury believes he didn’t do it).
But at present that third option just doesn’t exist. And I’m sure there would be all kinds of legal problems with introducing it.
Thanks, I’ll get the book.
Ironically, he was in more danger as a black guy than a white. The locals would eye him suspiciously, even with an American passport, and say "You look like a [fill in the hated tribal minority]. Same with other black journalists and camera crews.
Any American black who thinks he is disabused over here and went to seek his "roots" wouldn't last long among his "bruthas".
What just a dang minute! Have my emotions been toyed with by the MSM....... again!
The book has been ordered from Amazon, my door bell should be ringing today. No we haven’t gone Kindle. :)
Un-registered machetes? Background checks not performed. They were hackers before hacking was popular in the U.S. Oh, different type of hacking. B on B murders. Nothing to see here, move along. If king hussein had a cousin..........
As a matter of fact...
What about the thousands of blacks who owned slaves?
Sorry, missed this one.
Yeah he was in Tanzania (I believe) when the massacres were going on. He tells of standing on a bridge and counting 3-4 bloated bodies floating by every minute - some were in one piece. A black female journalist who had arabic features was nearly murdered because she "looked like a Tutsi". That's when it dawned on him that a white person was safer there than one who was black. Tribalism seemed to be the main determiner of fate.
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