Posted on 07/31/2013 2:26:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Democratic leaders launched an effort this week to curb racial discrimination in the nation’s criminal justice system, arguing that the current process treats minority groups unfairly.
The lawmakers are examining what Congress can do — if anything — to fight racial profiling, iron out sentencing disparities and rein in other deep-rooted biases they say plague both the legal process and the country as a whole.
The push comes weeks after George Zimmerman, a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted of murder charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, in a gated subdivision last year.
The Zimmerman verdict has opened up a debate about race even as some participants in the trial downplayed it. President Obama earlier this month questioned what would have happened if Martin had been white or Zimmerman black.
Behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democrats staged a public hearing on Tuesday to encourage a national conversation — both rare and uncomfortable — about racism in America.
“Racism is not simply about African-Americans. Racism is present in every one of our communities,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.), the chamber’s Democratic whip. “We need to be conscious of it; we need to confront it; we need to deal with it.”
Democrats on Tuesday steered mostly clear of advocating for specific policies, instead asking broader questions about Congress’s role in the race debate. Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, wondered, for instance, how much power Congress has to alter racist views.
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I guess as far as the Democrats are concerned, justice should not be blind.
Here’s your discussion: assault me or my wife and I will kill you. Black, white, brown, etc. - you’re all equal over the sights of my SIG.
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No, I think that Liberals really do see this as the most important issue in constructing their mythical Liberal utopia.
When you can’t get want you want ......it’s racism.
Unlikely. They do know what they’re doing, just like O’Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Take note of how the POTUS uses the many scandals as a smokescreen to force through his agenda by executive fiat, and remains untouched by said scandals, even thinking he can shrug them off as “phony”.
Great. I would welcome such a discussion.
What I would not welcome is another lecture to whites from black race warlords and White Guilt-laden Leftists telling me to sit down, shut up, and ignore what is going on in the world with respect to the criminal culture in a significant chunk of black America.
Dear Nan,
America has discussed the issue of blacks in America. Decisions were arrived at after much discussion over the last decades and we have concluded:
1. Grigsby was correct - The Democratic Party IS teh “party of treason”.
2. All race based laws, regulations, ad nauseam must be repealed because America really consists of one people.
3. Those who disagree should leave.
4. Americans will henceforth take care of their own children and no American shall be taxed to support the child of another.
5. America likes its Constitution and trusts in the 2nd Amendment far more than mere AgencyPersons.
6. Americans will continue to arm themselves against the likes of social predators outside of the government like St. Skittles and inside the government - like you and your treasonous Democratic colleagues.
In short, Nannie Dearest, Americans wish you the best with your next face lift but wish to tell you that if pushed to decide between their guns and the 2nd Amendment, they did not choose you.
If American blacks want unarmed Americans for the black Urban Ferals to prey upon, they want “a want too far”.
Well, Jim Crow laws, the KKK, George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox were all products of or members of the Donkey Party.
You got lots of work to do.
Blacks should quit killing each other.
When you’ve got that under control, give me a jingle and we’ll talk.
If young black females would learn to keep their knees together until they get married a lot of the problem would go away.
It was never a donkey.
So they don't want to have a discussion on race; they want to enact an agenda.
Not just no but HELL NO!
Young Black Men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murders.
There is no such thing as “racial justice.” Something is just or it is not.
“Racial justice” means blacks can do what they want without consequences of any kind, and whitey has to pay them money for nothing.
The Progressive/Democrat/Racist Party doesn’t give a crap about helping black people. It’s all about race mongering to keep the “base” fired up. From 2000 to 2010, 14,000 black children under the age of 15 were murdered and 90% percent of those black children were killed by other blacks. Where has the outcry been about that?
And now a single black gangsta wannabe picked on the wrong dude and his gangsta career came to a premature halt. And NOW the Progressive/Democrat/Racist Party pretends like they give a rat’s ass. It’s all about pandering folks, all about pandering.
And
I hate it when Liberals want to start a “conversation.” That means they are about to bend America over and have their way with Her.
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