"Justice", Texas Style - It Sucks to be Black, I Guess

[MannyGoldstein]

Black guy smokes pot while on probation, gets life in prison. White guy does crack while on probation (for murder!), stays free. Same judge.

WTF?

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042306dnmettwomen.2e5ca5a.html

[babylonsister]

1. And you think it's bad in the northeast. Think again!

Blatant and gross. It's odd that when I first got to TX I didn't 'feel' the racial hatred.
Now I feel it for lots of people, black and Hispanic.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. I Love My Little Island of Liberality

Yes, I do get POed sometimes, but, in the end, I usually do love Massachusetts - a great place to live, other than the weather. And the collapsing Big Dig tunnel roofs - but that's all the Rethugs' fault!

[DeSwiss]

2. From the article:

And "you can't tell what the reasons are," said Kevin Reitz, a University of Minnesota law professor who is one of the nation's leading experts on sentencing guidelines. "I call this a black box system. You have someone with a lot of power and no burden of explanation."

Well he got the part about a "black box system" right. Its a system designed to keep blacks in the box.

[angry_chuck]

4. Texas is ass backwards when it

comes to drug enforcement. Life for pot? That is the biggest load of sh** ever. The guy probably wanted to chill out; he was stressed because he was on probation. "Man I gotta smoke to lighten up for I kill someone." the con says. I bet he is so angry he might kill someone now. What a farce. Justice? Liberty? Equality?

Where will it end? Will we have nothing left?

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." ~ Thomas Jefferson