How many of us have had one of those conversations where, instead of going up somebody’s head, you go with option B by sternly asking a young brutha or sistah “Man, how long are you going to keep screwing around like this?” Or just “Look nig….”. Although in most cases words will do little, you just felt compelled to do SOMETHING. Well apparently a judge down in the ATL felt the same way–
Judge Orders Whites Out Of Atlanta Court
wsbtv.com
ATLANTA — Judge Marvin Arrington insists he’s not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday.
The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom.
“I came out and saw the defendants, about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and some point time I excused some of the lawyers, most of them white, and said to the young people in here ‘What in the world are you doing with your lives,’” he told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter JaQuitta Williams.
Arrington said he thought his message might have more power if it was delivered to a blacks-only audience.
“I didn’t think about racism or reverse racism, I practiced law for 30 years and 75 percent of my partners were white,” he explained.
The judge said the majority of people who appear before him accused of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery are black and he wanted to do something about it, one on one.
“I didn’t want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying ‘Please get yourself together,’” he said. (more…)
Frankly, if I was in the same situation, I would have done the same thing. Unlike this judge, I am not as concerned about the perception of me “talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them”, because guess what? Many of these young bruthas and sistahs have no problem doing that to others. Trust me, they can handle it.
Sometimes compassion has an ugly face.
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