New Footage of Black Panther Leader let off by Eric Holder

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

Im sure if it involved causian people they would in jail by now.

I realize that being born "white" in the United States is incredibly difficult and basically means a person is going to be subjected to a lifetime of unfair treatment () so I'm really glad there are two different threads right now about this incredibly pressing () issue.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I realize that being born "white" in the United States is incredibly difficult and basically means a person is going to be subjected to a lifetime of unfair treatment () so I'm really glad there are two different threads right now about this incredibly pressing () issue.

So with all that sarcasm you're basically agreeing that whites have no civil rights, correct?

Because you would no doubt draw similar conclusions if we make the hateful S.O.B in that video a caucasian screaming about murdering blacks. You'd still say it's no big deal, right?

Remember that statue of justice being blind? It doesn't matter what the ethnic background is -- the behavior shown in the video is wrong.

Obama needs to clean house.

/captainobvious

[Nascar1966]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Obama needs to clean house.

/captainobvious

He should do us all a favor and start with himself.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I realize that being born "white" in the United States is incredibly difficult and basically means a person is going to be subjected to a lifetime of unfair treatment () so I'm really glad there are two different threads right now about this incredibly pressing () issue.

You don't think it's a big issue when the Attorney General drops charges against guys simply because of their race? I think it's a huge issue.

By the way, aside from the videos there are also several credible witnesses to what took place:

"To support its evidence, the government had secured an affidavit from Bartle Bull, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. Mr. Bull said in a sworn statement dated April 7 that he was serving in November as a credentialed poll watcher in Philadelphia when he saw the three uniformed Panthers confront and intimidate voters with a nightstick."

"Inexplicably, the government did not enter the affidavit in the court case, according to the files."

"In my opinion, the men created an intimidating presence at the entrance to a poll," he declared. "In all my experience in politics, in civil rights litigation and in my efforts in the 1960s to secure the right to vote in Mississippi ... I have never encountered or heard of another instance in the United States where armed and uniformed men blocked the entrance to a polling location."

Mr. Bull said the "clear purpose" of what the Panthers were doing was to "intimidate voters with whom they did not agree." He also said he overheard one of the men tell a white poll watcher: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."

He called their conduct an "outrageous affront to American democracy and the rights of voters to participate in an election without fear." He said it was a "racially motivated effort to limit both poll watchers aiding voters, as well as voters with whom the men did not agree."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...cube_position1

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I realize that being born "white" in the United States is incredibly difficult and basically means a person is going to be subjected to a lifetime of unfair treatment () so I'm really glad there are two different threads right now about this incredibly pressing () issue.

i appreciate the point you're making here...however, past practice doesn't excuse present and future mistakes. crime, regardless of who committed it and who was the victim, should be investigated. was this one? it's looking more and more like the doj screwed up here. i read earlier that the case was dismissed after the black panther with the truncheon agreed not to stand at polling places in future with a weapon-until 2012. interesting.