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You're kidding, right? Dannymac Send a noteboard - 23/09/2011 02:55:44 PM
The NAACP is a lobbying organization meant to support a specific minority. Specifically, black people. So, no, they do not rally for white prisoners. That would be a blatant misuse of their funds and departure from their charter. They are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons, not the Happy Happy Protest Everything That is Wrong Club.

And read up on White Privilege, sometime. White people do not NEED our own version of the NAACP... we are already living in a society where things are substantially tipped in our favor.

And his statements indicated that our society abhors the execution of a black man, where the stats clearly indicate otherwise. Perhaps he was actually in possession of those facts, you could be right, but as he reacted in a way that indicated that he was not, I assumed his ignorance, rather than his stupidity.

All of the numbers I have presented so far are from the Justice Department. I haven't been able to find any specific count of black suspects vs white suspects, which would be interesting information, but I have also found this interesting tidbit... only 50% of murder victims since 1976 have been white... and yet 75% of the murder cases that end in an execution had a white victim.

If you want to go looking for the golden stat that proves in all of this that blacks are just more "murdery" and that is not indicative at all of institutionalized prejudice, then go right ahead. The stats I've found show otherwise, strongly so, and trying to pretend that they don't matter is just willful ignorance and indicates prejudice.

As with Dark Knights ignorance, I can't KNOW that you are a racist. You could be a completely tolerant person. All I have to go by is your posts. So I could be wrong. I am open to and hopeful of that possibility.
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i'm proud to live in a country where you can be executed based on circumstantial evidence... - 22/09/2011 04:06:07 PM 1333 Views
Yeah it's pretty damn disgusting and frustrating... - 22/09/2011 04:08:05 PM 647 Views
Well - 22/09/2011 06:57:37 PM 687 Views
And yet the Supreme Court didn't stop it. You're a lawyer right? - 22/09/2011 04:19:05 PM 708 Views
Well, that right there was an ignorant thing to say. - 22/09/2011 04:32:49 PM 764 Views
But they get all the media attention - 22/09/2011 04:45:03 PM 658 Views
Er. - 22/09/2011 05:09:44 PM 660 Views
What about the t-shirts? *NM* - 22/09/2011 05:47:49 PM 269 Views
Heh... you should perhaps Google 'The West Memphis 3' - 22/09/2011 05:29:06 PM 732 Views
And this is a typically illogical argument. - 22/09/2011 11:11:48 PM 697 Views
You're kidding, right? - 23/09/2011 02:55:44 PM 643 Views
Re: You're kidding, right? - 23/09/2011 07:36:38 PM 661 Views
Juror bias. *NM* - 23/09/2011 08:35:10 PM 258 Views
the jury was majority black *NM* - 23/09/2011 09:03:48 PM 272 Views
In this instance, yes. *NM* - 23/09/2011 09:30:10 PM 229 Views
Your evidence for that? *NM* - 23/09/2011 11:33:58 PM 263 Views
Twenty-one years of life in the American South. - 24/09/2011 12:40:10 AM 618 Views
Of course I'm interested - 24/09/2011 04:03:51 AM 550 Views
From me being too involved with the subject material. I apologize. - 24/09/2011 11:16:06 AM 530 Views
No worries - 24/09/2011 07:10:40 PM 512 Views
While I largely agree with your argument, I agree more with Cannoli on the NAACP. - 23/09/2011 07:46:06 PM 596 Views
Wow - 23/09/2011 07:50:06 PM 510 Views
It happens. - 25/09/2011 03:09:00 PM 552 Views
yes the "you born white what more do you want" argument *NM* - 23/09/2011 09:03:04 PM 258 Views
From what I've read it is pretty disturbing - 22/09/2011 04:27:44 PM 736 Views
Huh. - 22/09/2011 04:47:20 PM 722 Views
That jumped out at me too. - 22/09/2011 04:50:52 PM 645 Views
What really confuses me - 22/09/2011 04:58:32 PM 610 Views
Well... - 22/09/2011 05:18:54 PM 756 Views
So if I understand you correctly... - 22/09/2011 05:23:00 PM 694 Views
almost - 22/09/2011 08:25:06 PM 583 Views
Re: Well... - 22/09/2011 05:29:03 PM 659 Views
I know one reason is that - 22/09/2011 08:27:41 PM 650 Views
it is only confusing because the evidence isn't really that shaky - 22/09/2011 08:54:21 PM 620 Views
you are innocent until proven guilty - 22/09/2011 05:34:57 PM 665 Views
You must change your perspective..... - 22/09/2011 07:33:20 PM 649 Views
Well said *NM* - 22/09/2011 08:49:56 PM 287 Views
If I understand the Supreme Court correctly, the reason they denied the stay of execution was - 22/09/2011 08:25:14 PM 674 Views
On its face, that is a good reason. - 22/09/2011 10:07:44 PM 703 Views
I completely support the Death Penalty without question..... - 22/09/2011 08:27:54 PM 579 Views
Unreasonable doubt is impossible to eliminate. - 22/09/2011 09:54:43 PM 655 Views
Doubt can be eliminated.....any question about Dalmer? - 23/09/2011 01:00:52 PM 625 Views
Maybe he was framed by an enemy, government conspiracy or aliens. - 23/09/2011 01:54:21 PM 602 Views
Jigga what? *NM* - 23/09/2011 03:36:07 PM 291 Views
Circumstantial evidence is not, I believe, a bar to conviction. - 22/09/2011 09:43:56 PM 549 Views
Regarding the salvation thing, that is an argument FOR the death penalty, in my mind. - 22/09/2011 11:37:16 PM 623 Views
That motive is seflish and thus fatal. - 23/09/2011 01:17:00 AM 562 Views
Bullshit - 25/09/2011 03:53:05 AM 790 Views
Thank God you're not an evangelist. - 23/09/2011 02:59:06 PM 583 Views
And I pity the souls you have ministered to. They're in for a rude shock at their judgement - 25/09/2011 04:01:05 AM 613 Views
lol roman catholicism *NM* - 25/09/2011 04:39:55 AM 240 Views
You really don't understand irony, do you? Particularly as it applies to your post about this case. - 22/09/2011 11:26:49 PM 670 Views
. - 23/09/2011 08:21:38 AM 617 Views
I kind of agree. - 24/09/2011 12:05:27 AM 628 Views

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