what kind of hell would erupt if a white judge wanted to talk to a WHITES-ONLY audience in a courtroom ? this politically correct double standard crap has to stop. maybe obama needs to make another speech.
If he wasn’t an idiot he would have said he wanted to talk to the young men without any attorneys and left race out of it.
But that would be unlike him.
Actually, his explanation makes perfect sense to me. I support what he did. That's probably the first dressing-down most of those men have received in their lives.
this judge is right on target...it is ironic how pc crap has just gotten so out of control you can’t even do something good anymore.
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Clearly another clueless racist authority figure adding to the
problem.
BTW- Afro American???
I thought that was a racist term replaced by Black, replaced by african american...
“I didn’t want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying ‘Please get yourself together’”
This judge is a piece of garbage.
Instead of pleading with criminals he needs to lock their As@#$ up for as long as the law allows.
I’m getting sick of this!
So there were 1,000 defendants in the room, and one was a non-black?
Someone needs to have said this. If these kids had FATHERS, it wouldn’t have to be a judge.
I think his intentions are good, but it still makes him seem color oriented... Because why don’t whites and asians deserve the same talk about get yourself together? Don’t they merit the same concern? I like the judge giving a talk like this, but everyone deserves it regardless of color.
A Reverend Wright in a Robe
I can't remember more than three or four times in 26 years that happened. I never heard of a case, or saw one where the judge, sua sponte] sealed the courtroom himself.
I wonder what would happen to me if I said “OK, All The Blacks Out Of The Courtroom”......
One very interesting thing about recent black controvery, from Rev. Wright to this Judge’s racist attitude, is that it appears to be causing liberal Whites in this country to finally get over their delusional affinity to liberal guilt over past slavery. If you look around you hard enough you will see signs of this shift. Notice how the bottom two from the publics voting on the last American Idol were both Black. Not sure you would have seen this last year. Oh, my brother’s wife and step daughter, both liberal teachers that have always voted Democrat and were Obama supporters, following the Wright fiasco have said they intend this time to vote for McCain...even though voting Republican for the first time is causing them some distress. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Racial issues aside, it is unethical-if not illegal-for a judge to address a defendant outside the presence of his attorney. It violates, among other things, the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel.
Why couldn't you be derogatory to a criminal? God forbid you should insult a mugger or burglar.
Who the heck does he think he's kidding?
It seems to me he can give each one of his customers a special individualized speech, when he gives each one a long sentence as he protects society from these predators.
He didn't kick the lawyers out because they were white, he did it because they were lawyers. Anywhere but in a court of law I would have no problem with that. But throwing a defendant's legal representation out of court is a clear violation of their rights (barring contempt citations which would be a special case).
He's not a racist. He's just a really bad judge.
However in this charged post IR-Reverent Wright episode anything with race is very very sentitive, and most white folks I know dont want to have much to do with black churches anymore.
It is unfortunately utterly useless. These are hopeless slaves on the democrat plantation. Their lives have been destroyed by democrat party teachers unions, public housing projects, and welfare.