Posted on 06/11/2016 10:46:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A brief look at the most egregious examples from the last 40 years
Annoyed at federal judge Gonzalo P. Curiel's persistent rulings against him in the Trump University case (brought by a law firm that has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches by Bill and Hillary), Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that maybe it's because the judge is a second-generation Mexican immigrant.
The entire media -- and most of the GOP -- have spent 10 months telling us that Mexicans in the United States are going to HATE Trump for saying he'll build a wall. Now they're outraged that Trump thinks one Mexican hates him for saying he'll build a wall.
Curiel has distributed scholarships to illegal aliens. He belongs to an organization that sends lawyers to the border to ensure that no illegal aliens' "human rights" are violated. The name of the organization? The San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association -- "La Raza" meaning THE RACE.
Let's pause to imagine the nomination hearings for a white male who belonged to any organization for white people -- much less one with the words "THE RACE" in its title.
The media were going to call Trump a racist whatever he did, and his attack on a Hispanic judge is way better than when they said it was racist for Republicans to talk about Obamas golfing.
Has anyone ever complained about the ethnicity of white judges or white juries? I've done some research and it turns out ... THAT'S ALL WE'VE HEARD FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS.
The New York Times alone has published hundreds of articles, editorials, op-eds, movie reviews, sports articles and crossword puzzles darkly invoking "white judges" and "all-white" juries, as if that is ipso facto proof of racist justice.
Two weeks ago -- that's not an error; I didn't mean to type "decades" and it came out "weeks" -- the Times published an op-ed by a federal appeals judge stating: "All-white juries risk undermining the perception of justice in minority communities, even if a mixed-race jury would have reached the same verdict or imposed the same sentence."
In other words, even when provably not unfair, white jurors create the "perception" of unfairness solely by virtue of the color of their skin.
Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck's entire career of springing criminals would be gone if it were generally accepted that we can't question judges or juries based on race or ethnicity. Writing about the release of Glenn Ford, a black man convicted of robbing a jewelry store and murdering the owner, Scheck claimed that one of the most important factors in Ford's death sentence was the "all-white jury."
On the other hand, the evidence against Ford included: His two black friends telling police he'd shown them jewelry the day of the murder, another Ford acquaintance swearing he'd had a .38 in his waistband -- the murder weapon was a .38 -- and the gunshot residue on Ford's hand. His conviction was overturned many years later, on the theory that his black friends had committed the murder, then framed him.
So we know 1) the "real killers" were also black; and 2) any jury would have convicted Ford on that evidence.
Here's how the Times described Ford's trial: "A black man convicted of murder by an all-white jury in Louisiana in 1984 and sentenced to die, tapped into an equally old and painful vein of race."
I have approximately 1 million more examples of the media going mental about a "white judge" or "all-white jury," and guess what? In none of them were any of the white people involved members of organizations dedicated to promoting white people, called "THE RACE."
Say, does anyone remember if it ever came up that the Ferguson police force was all white? Someone check that.
I dont want to upset you New York Times editorial board, but perhaps we should revisit the results of the Nuremberg trials. Those were presided over by TRIGGER WARNING! all white juries. (How do we really know if Hermann Göring was guilty without hearing women's and Latino voices?)
The model of a fair jury was the O.J. trial. Nine blacks, one Hispanic and two whites, who had made up their minds before the lawyers' opening statements. (For my younger readers: O.J. was guilty; the jury acquitted him after 20 seconds of deliberation.) At the end of the trial, one juror gave O.J. the black power salute. Nothing to see here. It was Mark Fuhrman's fault!
In defiance of everyday experience, known facts and common sense, we are all required to publicly endorse the left's religious belief that whites are always racist, but women and minorities are incapable of any form of bias. If you say otherwise, well, that's "textbook racism," according to Paul Ryan.
At least when we're talking about American blacks, there's a history of white racism, so the double standard is not so enraging. What did we ever do to Mexicans? Note to Hispanics, Muslims, women, immigrants and gays: You're not black.
Other than a few right-wingers, no one denounced now-sitting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for her "wise Latina" speech, in which she said "our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
But Trump is a "racist" for saying the same thing.
Six months ago, a Times editorial demanded that the Republican Senate confirm Obama judicial nominee Luis Felipe Restrepo, on the grounds that "[a]s a Hispanic," Restrepo would bring "ethnic ... diversity to the court."
You see how confusing this is. On one hand, it's vital that we have more women and Latinos on the courts because white men can't be trusted to be fair. But to suggest that women and Latinos could ever be unfair in the way that white men can, well, that's "racist."
The effrontery of this double standard is so blinding, that the only way liberals can bluff their way through it is with indignation. DO I HEAR YOU RIGHT? ARE YOU SAYING A JUDGE'S ETHNICITY COULD INFLUENCE HIS DECISIONS? (Please, please, please don't bring up everything we've said about white judges and juries for the past four decades.)
They're betting they can intimidate Republicans -- and boy, are they right!
The entire Republican Brain Trust has joined the media in their denunciations of Trump for his crazy idea that anyone other than white men can be biased. That's right, Wolf, I don't have any common sense. Would it help if the GOP donated to Hillary?
The NeverTrump crowd is going to get a real workout if they plan to do this every week between now and the election.
What do Republicans think they're getting out of this appeasement? Proving to voters that elected Republicans are pathetic, impotent media suck-ups is, surprisingly, not hurting Trump.
Ann cuts through nonsense like a machete cuts through the jungle.
I sure don’t understand all the honky libs’ heads exploding over this. Obviously, the “judge” is proud of his Mexican heritage by being a member of “The Race” shyster cartel. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH CALLING HIM A MEXICAN? The “white guilt” libbies need to ask “judgey” if he was offended by being called a Mexican. Geez. This whole thing is so retarded. Definitely not news worthy. Blowing it all out of proportion is idiotic.
Annie needs to get on the road and high tail her splendid research over to the wobbly Independent voters, and deliver the message into the so-called “toss-up” states. She needs to live in these states, until November.
Publishing one article one time gets it some circulation, but this is an important message that needs to be repeated all the way to November.
Thanks for posting, Mojo. We need to circulate this article ourselves.
The problem is that this is out-of-proportion propaganda always works for Democrat voters, who are after all, enjoying their power gained by saturating the lo’ fo’ voters with messaging full of fear tactics, twisted logic and lies.
Then... they bus these people to the ballot box.
The whole “judge episode” is all about distracting everyone from the scenes of Mexican flag waving, American flag burning mobs attacking Trump rallies.
Jewish judges have been removed as well.
As has the Google documentation for this.
“MEXICAN” is NOT a “RACE”. “MEXICAN” is a NATIONALITY. THE “RACE” is “HISPANIC”.
When I took anthro Margaret Mead was a little girl, but IIRC Hispanic is a cultural and geographic (see Spanish Empire) not a race.
White people [men] are inherently racist, at least from the liberal, liberation theology viewpoint. Therefore we cannot be the objective...
ANNIE FOR VP!!
I know she has been out to lunch in the past, Romney being only the most egregious example.
But—like Trump—when she is on, she is spectacular!
Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck's entire career of springing criminals would be gone if it were generally accepted that we can't question judges or juries based on race or ethnicity. Writing about the release of Glenn Ford, a black man convicted of robbing a jewelry store and murdering the owner, Scheck claimed that one of the most important factors in Ford's death sentence was the "all-white jury."
THIS is why Ann's a national treasure...
The Leftist media is circling the wagons around the judge because they know he will rule against Trump in the Trump U case. Never do they mention Judge Curiel’s ties to the La Raza, often compared to the Ku Klux Klan. The Left wants this as evidence that Trump is a con artist which would make a strong impression to the voters come November.
Race is everything to the left. That’s why.....
“Elizabeth Warren Listed as ‘Woman of Color’ in Harvard Student Journal”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/05/elizabeth-warren-listed-as-woman-of-color-in-harvard-student-journal-in-1993/
Ann gets it right again. All this one way race crap needs to stop.
So simple and yet so on point.
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