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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Tell me ratbastid as the great, great, grandchild of Irish immigrants who came to this country after the civil war, what do I owe?
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You owe it to yourself to understand that unlike your great, great grandparents who came here by choice, ancestors of most blacks were brought here in chains and treated as 3/4 person for 200+ years.
You owe it to yourself to understand that even with the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution after the Civil War, blacks were still denied equal rights....to jobs, to housing, to public facilities, to voting, to equal justice in the courts......You were alive when there were "whites only" signs across American and poll taxes in the South.
You owe to yourself to understand that it took another 100 years and additional laws, Civil Rights Act/Voting Rights Act in the 1960s, to address the unmet promises made by the US with the passage of those 19th century amendments. You were alive when there were "whites only" signs across America and poll taxes in the South. This is not ancient history
And you owe to yourself to understand why this history still touches blacks in America today AND that blacks in America today still face discrimination and racism based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character.
But I honestly believe Pan is the one who needs this understanding.
Pan......are you planning to answer my questions:
Did the judge violate any rights of those persons he tossed out?
Did he question the character of those he tossed out...or disparage them in any manner?
Was there harmful intent in what you describe as an "act of discrimination" towards those persons he tossed out?
Even without knowing intent, were the persons tossed out harmed in any way?
And what law was broken....what legal claims would you have to sue the judge?
I don't want any more excuses, any more bullshit, I want simple YES or NO (or the name of a law for the last question) answers.