Julian658 wrote:That is why people should be judged as individuals and not as members of a group. We need to end race identitty politics and the idea of classifying people according to skin color.
Those are nice platitudes. It would be nice if you expressed them at literally any other time than when people are protesting the role of the police in enforcing racial hierarchy.
It's almost as if your dumb as shit "We need BETTER stereotypes and MORE women prison guards" argument is a thin veneer for what might have previously been lol trolling and what has now become a series of rehashed bad faith arguments meant to distract from any real discussion because you love the current status quo. Prove that you're being your best self by showing us that you really are a naive idiot and not an avowed racist.
Also @XogGyux I saw your post earlier I thought you would enjoy this:
From the Sun SentinelA man running for election supervisor in Pinellas County is asking Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala pursue charges against Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis ex-cop accused of killing George Floyd, alleging he voted illegally in two Florida elections.
Dan Helm, a Democrat and attorney, sent Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala a letter notifying her of Chauvin’s voting record.
“While living in Minnesota, working there, paying taxes there, Derek Chauvin cannot claim residency in Orange County. His home, residency and where he intends to live is in Minnesota, not Florida,” Helm wrote.
His letter cites the Florida statute prohibiting false swearing and the submission of false voter registration information, adding that violation of the statute is a third-degree felony.
I think this is blatant election pandering, but I can't really fault the candidate for agitating for the fair and even enforcement of the law when the police have shown themselves unable to fill that executive function of law enforcement. We need to secure our elections and end voter fraud now. Defund the police.
For comparison,
From CNN(CNN)A Texas mother sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election appealed her conviction Tuesday, saying she did not know her status as a felon on release made her ineligible to cast a ballot.
Crystal Mason, an African-American mother of three, was on supervised release after serving time for tax fraud when she filled out a provisional ballot. She has said she did not know that as a convicted felon in Texas, she could not vote until the supervised release was complete.
To make Crystal's situation clearer: Voting rights for former prisoners are not uniform across each state. I do not believe Crystal was even aware of this, but even if she were her confusion over whether her felon status allowed her to vote would be understandable. Voting eligibility is decided on a state by state status, which I am sure is even further confused by whether or not the election is for state or federal positions.
Regardless, society was not served by sending this woman to prison for
fucking voting, and submitting her vote for review by an electoral board to determine if her vote was valid. All provisional ballots are reviewed for voting eligibility.
This is what people are protesting against: The law as a tool for suppressing minority political participation, whether it be through physical force, economic disadvantgement, or the unequal administration of the law. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions
prosecuted black people for trying to vote as an intimidation tactic. You might remember Jeff Sessions as the ~moral one~ of our current administraiton who recused himself. But he was still such a shit prosecutor that he couldn't convict a black man in 60's Georgia, and he definitely wanted to. But conviction wasn't the point, Sessions did his job in using the law to bring the full force of government on innocent men who wanted to help their community participate in the system that was oppressing them.
This is why Rand Paul is currently holding up the anti-lynching bill, which passed 410-4 in the House, with vague ~reasons~ about how innocent people physically adjacent to or only tangentially involved with a lynch mob might be unfairly prosecuted for simply bruising or giving a minor laceration to the victim of said lynch mob. Won't someone please think of the people who just get swept up in lynch mobs?!
The law will always stand as a way of punishing people who are deemed less worthy unless we demand that it change. The law makers and the law administrators have shown themselves to be corrupt at all levels. A single white man is holding up a bill saying that maybe lynching should be a crime. And the party he is with controls the parliamentary procedures that could let the bill be voted on, but they won't.
Because they are fine with Rand Paul grandstanding for racists. They see what Rand Paul is doing as a positive thing that helps them retain power. No wonder people are marching, because obviously these racist fucks have it too good.
I can't imagine the outrage that would have poured out had Crystal been white. Well intentioned mother imprisoned, ripped away from her children, for doing her patriotic duty.
Od dear I'm not sure MLK would really have wanted to be judged by the content of his character. We know that he carried on multiple affairs while preaching that sex should only take place within heterosexual marriage. But it also appears that he "looked on, laughed and offered advice" while Logan Kearse raped a woman. 
Big surprise! Are you suggesting concentration camps, too?
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