Posted on 04/02/2008 5:46:50 AM PDT by tobyhill
ATLANTA — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington says he intended nothing racist when he ordered white lawyers from his courtroom while he lectured black defendants.
Arrington, who is black, ordered the lawyers from the courtoom on March 27th. He says he walked into the courtroom and saw a crowd who appeared to be "99.9 percent" black. He says he decided to talk privately with the suspects.
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Just imagine the MSM howling if this situation were reversed!
why are we allowing this to continue? do any white men have any balls anymore?
The thugs are no more likely to listen to him than to Cosby, and exiling the whites was dumb. But, good intentions and no great harm done.
Sounds like his lecture was on the money. However, he should not have segregated the courtroom and should know better.
It appears that he understands this now.
My bet is the only regret he has is that it was made public.
I wonder if (cough) ‘Judge’ Marvin can spell... “Mistrial” or, “Overturned on Appeal”.
Agree. Racism is racism and this was in an official capacity. The judge should be sanctioned. An attorney can comment, but could this behavior be used by a white defendent to appeal the judge's decision in a future case?
Was the Lawyer a “Typical White Person”?
if a white judge got rid of any black lawyers...he’d be fired.
He ought to be investigated for committing a hate crime.
Go read what happened again. I’m 100% for what this guy said, and I don’t blame him one bit for excusing the lawyers.
Did the judge also remove the court reporter? By removing their lawyers, he handed an instant winning appeal to any one of those defendants he later found guilty.
White folks have been lectured for the past 30 years that there doesn’t need to be any “intent” for it to be racist.
Not that I really care about this particular situation. ‘Cause I don’t.
It’s only racist if a white person is doing something insensitive Don;t you know? Having lived in a predominately black neighborhood while growing up, I experienced black on white racism at it’s worst. There were many days when I would have to bolt off the school bus and would be chased all the way home just to keep from getting my butt kicked. You’d be amazed at how many times I was treated like I was crazy if I brought it up and lectured on how only whites can be racists. The logic was that when a black person did it, it wasn’t racism it was “payback”.
With that said, his heart is in the right place. This was kind of a dumb move, but he didn't mean any harm by it.
I can see where he was coming from -- from a certain point of view, the white lawyers in the room represented 'the man' even more than the judge. I find that incredible, but that's the way some people think. So he was trying to remove that excuse from the equation, so to speak, and speak to these young defendants man-to-man.
I give him points for trying, and I respect him more for it. I've always thought of him as just another political hack, but this demonstrates that he has a heart.
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