Thursday, June 23, 2005
"A very important first step...."
Edgar Ray
Complete justice?
"The fact that some members of this jury could have sat through that testimony, indeed could have lived here all these years and could not bring themselves to acknowledge that these were murders, that they were committed with malice, indicates that there are still people unfortunately among you who choose to look aside, who choose to not see the truth...."
Full article "Former Klansman Guilty of Manslaughter in 1964 Deaths" from The New York Times.
"Republicans will never pass up an opportunity to recast themselves as the party of civil rights [but] party labels shouldn’t cause any confusion. Yesterday’s Dixiecrat is today’s southern Republican." (full article "Racist Delivers Lynching Apology" from The Black Commentator via Dave P.)
There is no NFL crime problem.
But get your heads out of the sand and understand: there is still racism in America.
I've talked about this before but it looks like the MSM is finally starting to acknowledge the racial bias in their coverage of missing person stories.
While finally, I guess this is good news (especially for my parents' homeland of Guyana) but when Bush is involved I have to ask, "What's the catch?"
