Posted on 06/29/2020 9:36:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The top federal judge in Los Angeles is stepping down from that position after he apologized for saying that the court’s top administrative official, who is a (b)lack woman, was “street-smart.”
US District Judge Cormac J. Carney said he will no longer serve as chief district judge just less than a month after he began a four-year term, the Los Angeles Times reported. He will remain a federal judge for the Central District of California, which is the nation’s largest federal court jurisdiction. Carney was appointed to the lifetime post in 2003 by then-President George W. Bush.
Carney emailed court staff and fellow judges and publicly apologized to Kiry K. Gray, who in 2015 became the first (b)lack woman appointed to the position of executive and clerk of court for the Central District of California. […]
On June 9, Carney, a former Orange County Superior Court judge, was invited to speak at a webinar hosted by the Federal Bar Association. During the webinar, Carney spoke about his plans for the court as chief judge as well as the recent protests and riots that erupted nationwide in the wake of the May 25 police-involved death of George Floyd. “It’s been sad, quite frankly, seeing our courthouses vandalized with graffiti,” Carney said. […]
“Fortunately for me, we have just a fabulous clerk of the court in Kiry Gray,” he said. “She’s so street-smart and really knows her job.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The list of words you CAN say would be a lot shorter.
For starters, I think the following are permissible...
*A
* the
* and
* with
* be
* can
* do
* not
But you might want to check with the PC Language Police as things are always changing.
So, BLM wants blacks treated differently than the rest of humanity to verbiage. Certain other words cannot be uttered.Extra sensitivity must be employed because “they are all the same”, and thus will react the same way to hearing certain words. Looks like BLM and the race hustlers want to put blacks in stereotyping jail buy making up their own list that requires them to be offended if they hear it and serious penalties meted out to those who say it.
> It’s getting ridiculous, now you can’t even praise a black person... <
Unfortunately it’s gone beyond even that. Say something even a little “unusual”* to a gay person, an undocumented immigrant, a Muslim, etc., and you’re in trouble. Out you go!
* I put the word “unusual” in quotes because who the hell knows what will offend these days. You could say “Good morning” to a Muslim and get in trouble because it’s afternoon in Mecca.
This is ridiculous.
Street Smart is not an insult
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Next the morons will be taking down companies who are “in the black”.
Just think, if he had said:
“strangely enough, she is a good dancer,” same result.
“strangely enough, she is a bad dancer,” same result.
Nor is it restricted to one race or even species. Dogs can be street smart.
Sweet smart bad.
Clean and articulate good.
Got it
Did you think it would stop at the “N word”? That was just the start. Now it’s everything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do.
Wouldn't matter; words are prohibited ex post facto.
Ridiculous. My dark-skinned Puerto Rican friend told me that my problem was, “You don’t have any street smarts.”
There's street smart & book smart and the two skill sets aren't always present a person.
He's clearly saying she has both skill sets in saying she's street-smart and knows her job well so I want to see what else was said to see why it's being interpreted in a disrespectful way.
If there's nothing more there then the staff complaining are insensitive to the judge because they're not trying to understand how he, his people, his generation, expresses this positive idea. "Street-smart" is idiomatic. It doesn't mean you're a thug or lack sophistication.
Sometimes the best reaction to being offended is to ask yourself whether offense was meant and what stimulated that emotional reaction.
Is it objectively bad (let's say he called her the N-word, this is universally condemned) or is it a personal connotation based on past relationships or experiences (she is mentally held back because in her mind identified with "street" is bad because of where she came from or who she's interacted with. He can't know all that and if she's thinking I'm black and connecting with the streets is personally insulting that says more about the ideas living in her head, what values were handed to her in her life and how she feels about herself and people like her, than what he's said.
I'd really like to see more to determine if they were triggered because he said "street" anything or was there something else in the context that made it less than a compliment? I don't trust the press to be fair and factual.
Of course. The left loves racism, as one of the easiest and most effective ways to divide humanity and thus conquer.
The same thing is happening here in terms of black against white as it is with “Palestinian” versus Israeli.
One thing we’re getting an insight to here is how Satan’s mind works, though. Vital lesson for all of humanity.
So the panty-waisted, coddled, spoiled, immature, communist, race-baiting, drooling, scumbag, douchebags don’t like being called “street smart”?
I’ll make a note of that.
Someone else posted that they change the rules after the fact: ex post facto. That’s true, and it means there are no rules, and that Whitey is automatically guilty and loses his job.
There is little justice any more in the once-great USA.
I wish they would give us honkies a daily list of words we can’t say anymore.
Don’t worry, it’s on their list.
1. Things you can’t say any more.
2. Things you can’t do any more.
3. Things you HAVE to do to keep from persecution.
Injustice is everywhere; justice seems far away. Truth is chased out of court; honesty is shoved aside.Certainly fulfilled prophecy before our eyes.
— Isaiah 59:14, CEV
That used to be a compliment didn’t it? Didn’t it refer to a police office who had actually been on the streets and so had a more realistic idea of how to do police work?
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