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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'd like to say I'm surprised by reactions to this but I'm not.
Based on the replies I've read, if I were an outsider, I'd conclude that we must need a separate groups of laws for blacks than other races, as blacks have issues which being unique to them need to be addressed specifically to them and thats ok.
Perhaps black courts with black judges? Maybe only black cops can arrest blacks and whites can arrest whites?
While I share none of Pan's outrage there is a valid point here. Either we are one people equally under the law or we are not. It is only the racism that about everyone exhibited in this thread that allows us to say its ok for a black judge to exclude non-blacks from his court for any reason because blacks are different with different issues.
TFP is an interesting place. On the one hand I've been told that races don't even exist, there are no real differences, and on the other I've been told its ok for those in power to be exclusionary due to race differences as long as they are of that race.
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That is the whole crux right there. To me, whether people care to believe it or not, race doesn't matter, you are either a jerk or you aren't. But when you begin to make excuses for the behavior of one race/sex/group of people and say others cannot have that behavior, the action becomes prejudicial because you have made it so.
People on here (those brave enough to truly answer the OP question) have even stated flat out that a white judge could not do this and should not be allowed to do this. Yet, they find excuses to allow a different group to do it. That in and of itself is prejudicial and in this case racist thinking.
What are you saying, a white man raised in the same area and taught that blacks are equal and has believed all his life that race doesn't matter, doesn't need to hear what the judge had to say, simply because he is white?????
If the people who say yes to that, then turn around and would be vehemently opposed to a white/hispanic/male/female/etc judge doing what this one did.... that is by definition prejudicial, because you are excusing one group's behavior and giving them special privileges that you would withhold from another group.
That is my problem with all this.