Posted on 04/18/2005 10:00:13 AM PDT by tmcauliff656
Is this the New Racism?
Black woman civil rights lawyer in the tradition of a Fanny Lou Hamer, runs for DA in 2001 against white male incumbent, amidst charges of corruption from the political machine, which spawned him. Her banner- Justice not Politics. Media Ignores Her.
Incumbent’s agent vows to crush her. He levels an unprecedented colossal election battle against her and supporters, a mosaic, mostly people of color. Supporters are harassed all hours of the night by his agents. An extraordinary 150 people are subpoenaed including her father who had been dead 13 years. Media Ignores Her.
She is threatened with disbarment and indictment if she does not drop out. She refuses to be intimidated and fights all the way to the highest court of appeals and wins her place on the ballot. During the unprecedented election battle, on August 10, 2001, she asks US Attorney General Ashcroft for federal election monitors, which were sent to monitor the democratic primary. One week later, August 17, 2001, the incumbent initiated a criminal investigation against her with a Black client for whom she had just won an appeal on a ground-breaking predatory lending case, she had fought since 1996. The incumbent knew the client had a decades long predilection to accuse others, particularly lawyers, of sundry charges, which were all ignored by incumbent. Media ignores her.
She astounds everyone, particularly the incumbent, when she garners 37% of the vote with only 2 weeks to campaign and being outspent 25 to 1. Media ignores her.
Black lawyer was arrested on a very rainy Wednesday, June 18, 2003. She sat with a handcuffed young black man, that demographic she had spent her career trying to keep out of the prison system. The incumbent wanted her law license so she could not run against him in 2005. She fought back hard. She astounded the incumbent when she hit him in the midst of the presidential election, with a motion to dismiss her charges based upon his intentional, malicious selective prosecution, persecution against her, which was denied by the sitting judge. She was also prohibited from presenting any of the prosecutors malicious intent in bringing the charges to the jury. Even judges were whispering about her courage in fighting back and giving her much respect privately, but not daring to show any support, for fear of retaliation of indictment. The incumbent had created an air of fear that permeated the legal community, including the judiciary, as he made attempts to root out judicial corruption to vindicate him with the media, which had criticized him greatly for turning a blind-eye to judicial corruption. Sparse Media Attention.
The Jury hung after about 6 days of deliberation. Two black and one latino men were ready to send her away for 12 years. The black male spokesperson of the group said that they did not believe the client, but that she was too aggressive as she testified in her own defense. That was particularly disappointing to her, because she had fought for the black-latino male group the hardest during her career. During jury deliberation she was offered several pleas, culminating in the rare white man’s plea, which she refused over her lawyers objections. I will sit in jail before admitting to stealing money from a senior. That goes with me to the grave. I can not do it she said. She then prepared 2 public statements, one if acquitted, one if convicted. Sparse media attention.
Days after Martin Luther Kings Birthday, quoting his April 4, 1967 speech at Riverside Church, The calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, she announced her run for DA, even under the shadow of indictment. This was a blustery, Wednesday, January 19, 2005. You know they are saying that you have steel cohones, white male colleague told her. At a press conference the incumbent convened to overshadow her announcement, the incumbent pretty much conceded that he had maliciously and intentionally initiated these charges against her to cause her pain. [1] Media ignored her.
On the eve of the second trial, the charges against her were dismissed when the prosecution conveniently lost exculpatory tapes. Although the client was reimbursed the $8,800 legal fee for 5 years of work, the client then began her accusatory assaults on the judge and special prosecutor. At the press conference on Monday, February 28, 2005, she vowed to continue her campaign for DA, even though she was recommended to step down and become a judge, leave the tough work to the men. Sparse media attention.
In comes, a white female against the 30 year entrenched Manhattan DA. In comes, a white female incumbent against incumbent Nassau County DA. The media embraces them both. The media provides a 2-page Sunday bio-pic and 1/3 page weekday Q&A column for one. For the other, a 2/3 page spread, with an invitation to her first fundraiser. Whereas a senior white male journalist said he was not interested in stories about the black female lawyer, who pioneered this phenomena for challenges against incumbent DAs, back in 2001. Of course, he invoked the Q/C catchwords, Not Qualified/Competent. Well, this happened in 76% black and latino Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Black female DA candidate, the only challenger against any DA, the first Black female to make the run and only the second in New York City history to have made the attempt, was completely ignored. The white female DA candidates in 2005 are products of the Black female’s attempt in 2001 and again in 2005. Yet, the white females are embraced. But, the Black female the progenitor, is still ignored as unqualified. The black female was threatened with disbarment and indictment in 2001. The black female was indicted, arrested and faced 12 years of jail time for running against the white male incumbent. Will the white female DA candidates be indicted, arrested, threatened with disbarment, threatened with indictment, face years in jail for running against incumbent District attorneys? Is the black female civil rights lawyer being treated differently? Is this the New Racism?
Well, this is what happened to Sandra Elena Roper, Esq.. Timothy McAuliffe, tmcaulliff656@yahoo.com
So her qualifications for District Attorney are that she is a pharmacists, black, a woman and her middle name is 'Elena'?
Don't you go oppressing her with your "qualifications", Mr. Man.
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You trollin' or something?
Quiet as it's kept, I don't have much patience right now.
Mr. Mcauliffe, I'd suggest you get to your point - quickly - or get out of my face.
I think the point is that the candidate is a Black Republican Woman.
Where does the article say that she is a Republican?
Doesn't sound like she was a Democrat.
Sounds like she's asking for them for the main election. Doesn't make her a Republican.
Hey, is this the new
vanity? I've got to say,
not a lot of space . . .
She got 37% from somewhere. I think I can safely say that she is not on the Democrat Plantation which makes her dangerous and a target.
I was WRONG but isn't it fun when the RATS chew on each other?
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Sorry I was so slow gettin' here.I was headin' out the door for the day yesterday
about the time ya'll spotted this one.First post, vanity (no link), no replies since.
Tick! Tick! Tick!
New racism? Sounds more like old politics.
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