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Originally Posted by willravel
Well, Ustwo, we may be able to get close to putting ourselves in their shoes, but having not been that way since birth it's easy for us to miss something when factoring in. There's nothing racist about that.
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Yes, I'll never know what its like to 'be' black, and as I already stated I have absolutely NO problem at all with what the judge did.
But I can sort of see pans issue because the only way this is acceptable is because it is a black judge.
Were a white judge to do the SAME thing and give the SAME speech, black 'leaders' would be calling for his head.
Perhaps the real issue right now is you are only allowed to talk about race if you are a member of that race. Instead of fostering working together its only members of that race allowed to talk about the issues in the first place everyone else is suppose to ignore them.
I once read a short story, the details are not important, but I liked how they did their court. The trial itself was pretty much the same as today, but the judge who did the sentencing/conviction never saw the trial except as vague shadows, never heard their voices. He only got a neutral recording, where race/gender/age etc were unknown. I think perhaps thats the sort of system we will need in the very near future to end the perception that justice for black men can only come from a black man.