Posted on 03/29/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT by kingattax
ATLANTA -- Judge Marvin Arrington insists he's not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday.
The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom.
"I came out and saw the defendants, about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and some point time I excused some of the lawyers, most of them white, and said to the young people in here 'What in the world are you doing with your lives,'" he told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter JaQuitta Williams.
Arrington said he thought his message might have more power if it was delivered to a blacks-only audience.
"I didn't think about racism or reverse racism, I practiced law for 30 years and 75 percent of my partners were white," he explained.
The judge said the majority of people who appear before him accused of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery are black and he wanted to do something about it, one on one.
"I didn't want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying 'Please get yourself together,'" he said.
Arrington added that he may make a similar speech next week, but this time he'll allow everyone to hear it.
what kind of hell would erupt if a white judge wanted to talk to a WHITES-ONLY audience in a courtroom ? this politically correct double standard crap has to stop. maybe obama needs to make another speech.
If he wasn’t an idiot he would have said he wanted to talk to the young men without any attorneys and left race out of it.
But that would be unlike him.
Actually, his explanation makes perfect sense to me. I support what he did. That's probably the first dressing-down most of those men have received in their lives.
this judge is right on target...it is ironic how pc crap has just gotten so out of control you can’t even do something good anymore.
Unless the good judge is willing to adopt all those young men as step children,there is really nothing he can do to change their fate.
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Clearly another clueless racist authority figure adding to the
problem.
BTW- Afro American???
I thought that was a racist term replaced by Black, replaced by african american...
“I didn’t want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying ‘Please get yourself together’”
This judge is a piece of garbage.
Instead of pleading with criminals he needs to lock their As@#$ up for as long as the law allows.
I’m getting sick of this!
I agree. He’s upset with his race. Liberalism is a basis for this form of slavery.
So there were 1,000 defendants in the room, and one was a non-black?
Someone needs to have said this. If these kids had FATHERS, it wouldn’t have to be a judge.
I’m with you. So what he sent the whites or whomever out...he was trying to make a point to the defendants, some of which have probably never had any male authority figure talk to them like that. I hope he made an impression on one or more of them.
I think his intentions are good, but it still makes him seem color oriented... Because why don’t whites and asians deserve the same talk about get yourself together? Don’t they merit the same concern? I like the judge giving a talk like this, but everyone deserves it regardless of color.
A Reverend Wright in a Robe
I can't remember more than three or four times in 26 years that happened. I never heard of a case, or saw one where the judge, sua sponte] sealed the courtroom himself.
Actually, legally, that's going to be far, far worse for him.
I wonder what would happen to me if I said “OK, All The Blacks Out Of The Courtroom”......
May have had a bit more of an impact with the whole "just us guys here".
If he got through to one of them, then I think he did the right thing. However, I doubt that he made a dent.
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