I think everyone should be treated equally – until they show that they shouldn’t be. On an individual basis – YOU make me decide whether to treat you as an equal or as someone less than your posterior.
This Critical Race Theory crapola, in which there are no longer “persons” but a single group is the antithesis of what the Civil Rights movement (the 1950s, 1960s) was about. Instead of seeing any Black person as just Black, much of it (IMHO) was to see a whole class of people as individuals and as themselves.
This, on the other hand, just leaves me at a loss for words for its idiocy (reformatted, emphasis mine):
A Black defendant’s right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled. The upcoming trial of Terrance Shipp on charges of eluding police will be held in a courtroom that has no portraits on the wall, said Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard. Bernhard noted that his usual courtroom has no portraits. But jury trials that were postponed during the coronavirus pandemics are now being held in larger courtrooms. The walls of those rooms are lined with portraits of retired judges who are overwhelmingly white, he said.
Yes, let’s do to pictures what the Left has been doing to statues because those inanimate objects are just so RAAAAACIST! History is so HARMFUL to precious egos.
And they are ALL missing the point. Completely.
Public defenders raised the issue in a motion titled “Motion to Remove Portraiture Overwhelmingly Depicting White Jurists Hanging in Trial Courtroom. While to some the issue of portraits might be a trivial matter, to those subject to the justice system it is far from the case,” Bernhard wrote in his ruling, issued Sunday. He said he was concerned that the portraits “may serve as unintended but implicit symbols that suggest the courtroom may be a place historically administered by whites for whites.”
And in this is where I go “and sometimes, pictures are just that – pictures”. It must be a miserable life to think that RAAACISM! lurks around every corner, on the other side of the door, and whatever is on the wall. Egad – this is going just too far. If those judges served and served well, who are you to change history? Or just make it no longer matter? So we are not to “honor service” if one of the immutable characteristics of any person just happens to be melanin-void?
And we all know that phrase that if you don’t know history…..and I’m tired of people trying to change that which really can’t be (if one is being intellectually honest) or worse, judging something to be bad by the Left’s Standard of the Minute.
Bernhard said 45 of the 47 portraits hanging in the courtrooms are of white jurists. Prosecutors offered no objection to the request, Bernhard said in his ruling. Dawn Butorac, the chief public defender in Fairfax County, called the judge’s ruling “a very, very, very small step in a long overdue journey to battle systemic racism” in the judicial system.
Really, an EXTREMELY small step – just barely more than non-existent. After all, it is either the judge or the jury that metes out Justice – not a bunch of some (most?) long-dead guys all dressed in the same black robe?
And has anyone told these self-effacing wusses that THEY are the “system”? At least their little corner of them? Or are they so busy in adjusting their race-card glasses, they overlook the obvious in their rush to be seen as “the good guys”
Shipp’s trial is scheduled for Jan. 4. Bernhard’s ruling does not affect whether other judges in the courtroom must take judicial portraits into account. Earlier this year, a judge ordered a portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee removed from a courtroom in Louisa County.
Bernhard was born in El Salvador and elected to the bench in 2017 by the state legislature.
Is this just Black Lives Matter on double steroids? An act not to be seen as racist? Or, going with what seems to be the actual product of Critical Race Theory crossed with BLM and just erase Whites altogether for “Safetyism” (e.g., NO one should ever feel “unsafe” or have their feelings hurt?)? In fact, I’m not even able to completely express where on the Stupidity Scale this is.
I would LOVE to hear the explanation of how this is going to change the actual carrying out of Justice?
When I was on jury duty, I did go up and down and look at the past Judges that had walked those corridors? Did it change my mind about anything?
Nope. They had absolutely no standing with me – even as a Person of Pallor.
(H/T: WTOPnews)
