Posted on 02/17/2014 3:36:44 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
A day after a Florida jury deadlocked on a murder charge in the so-called "loud music" trial, the highest-ranking African-American member of Congress said the case is more proof that race does matter in America — and in its courtrooms.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the House's assistant Democratic leader, made the remarks Sunday after serving as a guest speaker, celebrating Black History Month, at St. Luke Baptist Church in Paterson, the city where he spent his summers working as a teenager and later got married. Sunday would have been the 19th birthday of Jordan Davis, who was killed in November 2012 when a man complaining about loud music fired 10 shots into the SUV where Davis and three other black teenagers were sitting. Michael Dunn, who claimed self-defense, was convicted Saturday night of attempting to murder Davis' three companions. But the jury deadlocked on the murder charge against Dunn, a white, 47-year-old Florida resident. ...
"I'm very, very disappointed about it. … I think it's time for us to stop ignoring the fact that race is a very, very important element in our justice system," Clyburn said.
In particular, Clyburn said that the prosecution erred when it failed to introduce into evidence racist letters that Dunn has written in jail, in several instances using the word "thugs" to refer to black men. ....
" St. Luke's pastor, the Rev. Kenneth Clayton, talked in his sermon about the Dunn verdict.
"For the jury to convict him on the lesser charges and not convict him of murder — when clearly someone was killed — is a travesty of major proportion.... We live in this violent little society where dark skin means we're open prey to any man.... It's still OK to kill black people in some parts of America...."
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Many of them are.
Clyburn is an old racist who cashed in big time.
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