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    Jerry-NetherlandAndy Cush
    5/23/16 11:15am

    Way to bury the lede: Justice Clarence Thomas was the single dissent. The mind reels.

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      Dave Jerry-Netherland
      5/23/16 11:34am

      Had to hit the links to confirm my suspicion of it being Thomas—I swear he is slowly morphing into Clayton Bigsby.

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      XrdsAlumJerry-Netherland
      5/23/16 11:37am

      Before clicking through I made a sick little personal bet that the one dissent would be Thomas. I was not disappointed.

      I’d be interested to find out what brought him to this level of miserable self-hatred.

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    DirktaniusAndy Cush
    5/23/16 11:33am

    Before we get the “but he committed a terrible crime” comments, the integrity of our justice system is infinitely more important than the guilt or innocence of one man.

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      pleasetellmemoreDirktanius
      5/23/16 11:37am

      Before we get the “integrity of justice system” comments, there is no integrity in our justice system. The illusion of it is what makes people think there is someting good about it.

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      360SasquatchDirktanius
      5/23/16 11:39am

      Right it doesn’t matter what crimes you commit you are innocent until proven guilty by a jury of your peers. Which is why no one on wall st went to prison for tanking the economy.

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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdAndy Cush
    5/23/16 11:22am

    “NO. No Black Church.”

    The inscrutable power of black churches cannot be underestimated.

    GIF
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      phunkshunArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      5/23/16 11:33am

      I had occasion to attend black church down south a few times. I was Jake Blues. Just instantly became him.

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      Executor ElassusArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      5/23/16 11:40am

      Everything I know about Black Church I learned from C2C:

      PS I might have a somewhat inaccurate view of Black Church??

      PPS I really wish I could dance like that :(

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    SleepyinTorontoAndy Cush
    5/23/16 11:15am

    So what I’m hearing is that this case only went through because the prosecutors literally could not have been more blatant with their racism... the lack of shame demonstrated here is outstanding.

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      therealdealjohnnyscarecrowSleepyinToronto
      5/23/16 11:59am

      The case was from 1987. That was a long time ago. How can we expect the people in the district attorney’s office to understand and respect the authority above them if it takes 30 years for justice to me meted?

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      IdidntSayThattherealdealjohnnyscarecrow
      5/23/16 12:32pm

      29 years ago doesn’t seem that long to someone like me (I was a jr in high school) and I’d like to think we were more accepting even in the 80's but that may be my pie in the sky innocents of my ignorant teen years with no internet and no interest in the CBS evening news w/ Dan Rather that my father watched every night.

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    Xan1567Andy Cush
    5/23/16 11:19am

    Man, Thomas’s dissent is um.... A little vague. You’d be hard pressed to convince just about anyone that this shouldn’t be retried, regardless of whether you thought it was racism.

    Deferring to the state judge’s ruling is a weird cop out. I mean, surely it's fishy enough in the eyes of anyone who wasn't ok with it being racist to warrant another go.....

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      therealdealjohnnyscarecrowXan1567
      5/23/16 11:55am

      That’s just Supreme Court speak for “I don’t agree, but the Constitution doesn’t specifically say that I can review a state law on race relations, unless of course it is counter to what I think.”

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    360SasquatchAndy Cush
    5/23/16 11:35am

    So you’re telling me they couldn’t find a jury of his peers in Georgia I would call bullshit too. No matter where you live in the US the system is all corrupted.

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      TheBurnersMyDestination360Sasquatch
      5/23/16 11:39am

      Right? You couldn't find one black person in the whole state of Georgia that was qualified to sit on a jury? Bullshit. Keep pulling people til you can. That "jury of your peers" thing isn't a "only when convenient" sort of deal.

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    etfpAndy Cush
    5/24/16 10:04am

    On a list of potential jurors, prosecutors had highlighted the black candidates’ names in green, with a legend showing that the highlight “represents black.” An affidavit Foster obtained showed an investigator writing about one potential juror, “If it comes down to having to pick one of the black jurors, [this one] might be okay.” A document about the church one prospective juror attended contained a note reading “NO. No Black Church.”

    Never fails. White people treated as the default standard while black people are some strange variable group that has to be excluded. It happens all the goddamn time.

    Those slack jawed Trump supporters with American flags as their Facebook profile pictures wouldn’t dare say that these prosecutors were ‘making it about race’.

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      ww1383Andy Cush
      5/23/16 2:20pm

      The greatest defender of White supremacy on the supreme court is a Black man. I hope when this is over someone gives that man an award.

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