Shannie0308
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kwillia said:
Someone has explained that to her before, she's just choosing to ignore the facts, and the way things work legally.
Is Charles Co. Racist?
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Someone has explained that to her before, she's just choosing to ignore the facts, and the way things work legally.
kwillia
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What if the police woke Johnny up and because the recognized him from past arrests, immediately searched him, found the gun and charged him with possession. I'm sure the outrage would of been all about him being profiled and illegally searched. Think about what you are saying eclark.
eclark
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That is true, the bottom line is a life was lost. I said from the jump racisim is not just about color, but where you come from, where you live, your family, your past. Sometimes I feel alot better when I see a white police offier in charles county verses a black officer and sometimes it's the other way all depends on what the situation is and what neighbor hood I'm in.
Nupe2
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eclark said:
"e": I'm going to take a chance in this forum and pass along some words of hope for you and for any you chose to share them with. A lot of people here and elsewhere in this country have problems with Jesse Jackson. Unfortunately, he brought a lot of them on himself. That being said, I will never forget his speech to the Democratic convention in 1988. I believe he delivered his finest speech ever. A speech that delivered a message of hope to all of us, no matter what our struggles, no matter what pain we are forced to endure. Hopefully, his words will help you now and in the future. This forum is a place for free and open discussion. Some of the discussions are painful to read and to accept but a lot of the sentiment here is valuable. Maybe you and others will learn from this discourse and perhaps, just maybe, from Jesse too.
"Jesse Jackson, you don't understand my situation. You be on television. You don't understand. I see you with the big people. You don't understand my situation."
I understand. You see me on TV, but you don't know the me that makes me, me. They wonder, "Why does Jesse run?" because they see me running for the White House. They don't see the house I'm running from.
I have a story. I wasn't always on television. Writers were not always outside my door. When I was born late one afternoon, October 8th, in Greenville, South Carolina, no writers asked my mother her name. Nobody chose to write down our address. My mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make it. You see, I was born of a teen-age mother, who was born of a teen-age mother.
I understand. I know abandonment, and people being mean to you, and saying you're nothing and nobody and can never be anything.
I understand. Jesse Jackson is my third name. I'm adopted. When I had no name, my grandmother gave me her name. My name was Jesse Burns 'til I was 12. So I wouldn't have a blank space, she gave me a name to hold me over. I understand when nobody knows your name. I understand when you have no name.
I understand. I wasn't born in the hospital. Mama didn't have insurance. I was born in the bed at [the] house. I really do understand. Born in a three-room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop jar by the bed, no hot and cold running water. I understand. Wallpaper used for decoration? No. For a windbreaker. I understand. I'm a working person's person. That's why I understand you whether you're Black or White. I understand work. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had a shovel programmed for my hand.
My mother, a working woman. So many of the days she went to work early, with runs in her stockings. She knew better, but she wore runs in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school. I understand.
At 3 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn't eat turkey because momma was preparing somebody else's turkey at 3 o'clock. We had to play football to entertain ourselves. And then around 6 o'clock she would get off the Alta Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey -- leftovers, the carcass, the cranberries -- around 8 o'clock at night. I really do understand.
Every one of these funny labels they put on you, those of you who are watching this broadcast tonight in the projects, on the corners, I understand. Call you outcast, low down, you can't make it, you're nothing, you're from nobody, subclass, underclass; when you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.
I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me. And it wasn't born in you, and you can make it.
Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high; stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don't you surrender!
Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint.
You must not surrender! You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified! And you hold on, and hold out! We must never surrender!! America will get better and better.
Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive! On tomorrow night and beyond, keep hope alive!
I love you very much. I love you very much."
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ylexot
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And I and others told you "from the jump" that those things are not racism. Those are not race related. By definition, they cannot be racism (which is prejudice based on race). Those things are simply prejudice...probably better classified as class-based prejudice.eclark said:
Shannie0308
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eclark said:
Searching without probable cause is not allowed. Regardless of the area. That alone would be grounds for dismissing any charges brought against him later on.
eclark
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So what is probable cause? If he was slumped over drunk, and ran over a curb, and nearly hit an apartment building, and I forgot to add as was mentioned earlier by the (man or lady with all the facts) he was trepassing, so why not search him at first. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't find anything physically on him.
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