[Wally_Kalbacken]

Impossible to imagine. Seriously. I practice in Fulton County from time to time (limited white collar defense) and when you appear with a white defendant as your client, you typically find that on a felony criminal calendar call (with say, 110 defendants on the docket), the courtroom is packed with nearly all black defendants and there will be perhaps one other white defendant other than my client (among the 60-80 defendants who will be present.) The staff of the court is predominantly black, the bailiffs are predominantly black, many of the judges are black, so you have, fairly commonly, a courtroom with maybe 3-5 white faces and a sea of black and Hispanic faces among the defendants. If a Martian were to land in the courtroom he would have to assume it was a system for processing black males.

Arrington has to be one of the black professional class in Atlanta that is tired of seeing this phenomena. I'm not keen on this - but if he wanted to talk to the brothas in a Come to Jesus mode without whites, no harm, no foul. It may not be efficacious, but I can hardly fault him.

[SkyPilot]

Seriously. I practice in Fulton County from time to time (limited white collar defense) and when you appear with a white defendant as your client, you typically find that on a felony criminal calendar call (with say, 110 defendants on the docket), the courtroom is packed with nearly all black defendants and there will be perhaps one other white defendant other than my client (among the 60-80 defendants who will be present.)

The Color of Crime

[Towed_Jumper]

“If a Martian were to land in the courtroom he would have to assume it was a system for processing black males.”

I have a favorite nephew who is a police homicide detective in a southern city (which will not be identified here). He once told me if it wasn’t for the black males committing crimes he wouldn’t have a job.

I think this trend started with Johnson’s “Great Society” which destroyed traditional (and often conservative), black families...it devolved into a culture of gangster mentalities coupled with drugs...very sad.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Arrington . . . wanted to talk to the brothas in a 'Come to Jesus' mode

That's just what it looks like to me. Arrington trying to use his own racial identity as a lever to accomplish what in any case is, and ought to be, public policy.

Maybe he should have done it personally and individually . . . there would be no impropriety that I can see, and it might have a bigger effect.