For those who sit so high in judgement of this young man, not one of you should ever open your mouth about this man being a criminal, because the crimes you have committed against Blacks throughout your entire white history is more barbaric, sadistic and heinous than any crime Blacks could ever commit in their lifetime. If some of these young black men today are stupid enough to use drugs, rob, or steal, they are hurting no one but theirselves in the interim, but in no lifetime can their crimes ever amount anywhere near to the barbaric sadistic, hedonistic crimes that whites have committed on Blacks since the time of slavery when you strung up innocent Black men and children by their necks, cut off their privates, gouged out their eyes, cut off their fingers and toes, gouged their insides. Yet you people in your vainness and hypocrisy continue to sit in judgement of Blacks, yet those you judge is none other than what you created!

You sit on your white thrones, portraying superiority to the world, yet was it not you and yours who had Blacks work like dogs to feed your faces and farm your lands thereby making you rich while insuring Blacks had nothing to pass down throughout their generations. Did you not pack them on top of each other into ghetto’s without resources or jobs, did you not put liquor stores on every corner and funnel your drugs and guns into their communities thereby promoting drug use, abuse, hoping those same weapons they’d use to kill each other, thereby spearing you the trouble. Was it not you that put Blacks in the front line of fire in your unholy wars to die for a country that’s treated them like dirt. Who do you have to blame but yourselves, for when you treat people like animals, they become as animals. Yet you sit on your high and mighty white pedestals and judge these young black criminals, albeit they are no more than what you helped to create. Yet let one of yours be treated as you have treated blacks, and you would be screaming to the high heavens for massive death penalties. No one has the right to take another’s life, that is for God alone, yet you have taken more lives than any other race of people on the face of the earth. Its been written “Judge Not less ye be Judged” Yet you have been judge, jury and executioner of Blacks for well over 300 years. One can only imagine the time when your judgement day comes for all of the crimes you have committed against God’s first born people.

Way off topic, but was Mayor Schmoke right years ago? As I recall he was more interested in rehabilitating drug offenders than in incarcertaing them.

With Regard to Ms. Smart, clearly, ‘you need to get in the real world’ and come up to speed with respect to what is and what is not a crime. Each and everyday laws are being reviewed in District, Federal courts and all the way to the Supreme Court, and many of them are being tossed out, often too late. Some of Ofari Hutchinson’s books on crime, particularly as it relates to our young people, might be a good starting place for you. Our criminal justice system as well as the laws in this nation are not uniform, and they never have been.

Have you ever heard of Jim Crowe? Have you ever heard of miscegenation laws? Where have you been? As much as I have been a fan of OJ, clearly the OJ case was a perfect example of the inequities in the American system of jurisprudence. Many young people who were accused of commiting less heinous crimes, who could not afford good counsel, have languished in prisions and some have since been executed only to discover later that they had not commited a crime.

And before you say it, just think about it, as a result of DNA testing it has been proven over and over again that many individuals were locked up and some almost executed that never should have been! The best example of unjust law is found in John chapter 8. A woman brought to Jesus was found guilty in the court of world opinion given that she had been taken in the act of adultery (where was the man?), which was one of at least 8 capitol crimes under Jewish Law at the time. Jesus excused the woman, whereby infuriating those who accused her - the same men came back later to stone him.

It is still against the law in America to be black (there is a venal and basic assumption among some that you have done something wrong just because you happen to be black). Have you ever sat in court and watched 8 to ten of our young people being brought into court with leg irons and handcuffs, to be tried by a wealthy elite (judges, prosecutors…) when mostly what these kids really need is a education and a job.

I tend to be very radical, the last time I was called to Jury duty, I stunned the court by asking the judge to excuse me from a process that I did not have any respect for!

Do your homework for you are way off base in my opinion! Is it real justice or is it just us?

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It says you can call and order the shows as well.

Rev., all day on the 4th I have been listening online to Wpfw.org and I swear that I was reading your posts. I wish there was a way to get information out about some things that we can access from the computer. Today, all day until about 4 or 5, they had speeches continuous by Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and even a great one by Sam Cooke(yes that Sam Cooke) and a French woman that I did not catch her name. Tremendous day of radio. I don’t know where you are located but if you have Pacifica radio in your area then this show was on today.

Prisons are becoming big business. There is probably a staffing requirement setting a percentage of gaurds to inmates. Private security companies would be more than willing to fill any shortages. Maybe the shortages don’t get filled. We may learn some of these details as time goes on.

Obviously something is broken in their process to allow Mr. White to be murdered in maximum security and I’ll bet it wasn’t a lack of tax paid funds.

While my colleagues were criticizing the university for its failures, I reminded them that our kids were going to be looking at us one day asking, and what have you folks done and why not? One of my colleagues proferred that we ought to consider whether we were better as a people when we were negroes, in comparison to what we have become since we’ve become an affluent an educated class of Afro-Americans.

His point was based upon a sermon that he heard, i.e., when we were negroes at the end of the 19th and through the mid-20th century we built schools like Tuskegee, we worked, we purcheased homes, we respected each other…, and we did it with limited resources. He added that since the time that we became black and Afro-Americans (with an educated class and plenty of dollars about a 600B economy at the time), that we seemed to have lost our way, i.e, our kids are wearing their pants down on their butts, disrespect between young and old not to mentionthat we’re abandoing our communities for the suburbs…! The latter is really problematic when we criticize whites for removing the intelligentsia from Africa, and now the black inteliggentsia seems to be running without being forced to do so. Harold Cruse’s book: The Crises of the Negro Intellectual speaks to that point!

Mr. Former colleague’s query was most thought-provoking. I am of the opinion that we need to call our ambassdors home and get into our communities and our own heads and, figure out the problem for once and fix it. Don’t get mad at me for saying this CS, for at times my assessment of my own community sounds like I’m criticizing when I am trying to analyze, but one has to wonder why even in African black nations, why our people cannot seem to get up? I told you about my fight with the Congolese on that topic!

Certainly there were colonial factors that contributed to the problem, however, outside of that reality, something is amiss and not even I, this Solomon, can figure out what it happens to be! In America, what is the problem - we ought to talk about it and figure it out. I am tired of seeing other kids grow up and go to college, when too many of our kids grow up and go to jail.

A black comedian once said that when I die, I expect to die of natural causes and be shot by the Los Angeles Police Department!