"Why Blacks Shouldn't Vote For Blacks Just Because They're Black"

"You would think that Black folks could expect at least some tangible benefit froom [sic] electing other Black people to high and important positions. Everybody else expects the quid pro quo, why shouldn't we? Well we can expect it all we want, I have yet to see real tangible effects from having Black elected officials.

"Case in point, GA Attorney General Thurbert Baker, elected Black man, and Genarlow Wilson, convicted Black man. The elected Black man has the power to look at this case, see the clear and obvious injustice, and with a stroke of his pen, correct the situation. Unfortunately for Genarlow, that probably wont [sic] happen, because our Black elected officials are apparently still controlled by white puppet masters."

"A similar overreach occurred in the Duke lacrosse case." [I definitely see the similarities, don't you?] — Quoting Maureen Downey (AJC editorial board), self-appointed legal "expert"

[Such is the thinking, or lack of it, at Exodus Mentality, where "it's time to bring into being a change for the better," "eliminate poverty and promote world peace" on "a progressive Journey to Freedom."]

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"Save Genarlow Wilson, Remove District Attorney Thurbert Baker" (Huffington Post)

"We all need to contact Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue tonight and demand that Thurbert Baker be removed from office."

[Of course, there's no LEGAL basis for these rants, but when has that ever stopped liberals.]

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"Last month [May 2007], former President Jimmy Carter wrote a letter to state Attorney General Thurbert Baker supporting Wilson's petition for release."

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“Supporters also said Wilson, now 21, is being scapegoated because he is black, as are all the people in the videotape. [Playing the “Race Card,” even when all parties involved are black, who’s surprised at that accusation?]

"‘The racial dimension of the case is likewise hard to ignore and perhaps unfortunately has had an impact on the final outcome of the case,’ Carter wrote to Attorney General Thurbert Baker on May 24.

"‘There is some statistical evidence reported by various nonprofit agencies in Georgia, leading me to believe that white minor defendants in the same circumstances as Mr. Wilson's receive far lesser forms of punishment,’ Carter wrote. [He fails to mention the plea deal that Wilson rejected.] But prosecutors in Atlanta argued that the new law cannot be applied retroactively.

"‘The General Assembly did not make it retroactive,’ said prosecutor Paula Smith. ‘They had the prerogative to do so; they did not.’"

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"[Wilson's mother] was flanked by civil rights leaders and black lawmakers, who expressed anger at the decision by Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker to block Wilson's release by filing an appeal of the judge's ruling. [Civil rights leaders and other blacks expressing anger, what a surprise!]

Joseph Lowery, former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, called Baker's decision 'unnecessary, unjust and unfounded.' [No explanation of how it's "unjust" legally]

"'We don't understand the reasoning or rationale of the attorney general on this issue,' Lowery said." [Perhaps what's not understood is that the RULE OF LAW should not bow down to black (or any other color) outrage.]

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Why did Baker appeal the decision of Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson?

"In a statement announcing his decision, Baker said he filed the appeal to resolve 'clearly erroneous legal issues,' charging that the judge did not have the authority 'to reduce or modify the judgment of the trial court.'

"Baker also said prosecutors in Douglas County had offered a plea deal that would reduce Wilson's sentence, possibly to time already served, and place him in a program for first-time offenders.

"Once his sentence was complete, his conviction would be removed from his record, and he would be taken off the sex-offender registry, the attorney general said.

"But late last year, the Georgia Supreme Court, on a 4-3 vote, turned down Wilson's appeal, and both Douglas County District Attorney David McDade and Baker have opposed moves by his attorneys to have him released.

"Legislation that would make the change in Georgia's child molestation law retroactive in order to free Wilson failed to win approval earlier this year."

[Where in the list of duties for the Attorney General does it state that “Tough as Nails” Baker is permitted to ignore the rule of law? How would his “tough on crime” campaign position be consistent with ignoring an activist judge who decides to set aside the law for one person?]

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"Genarlow Wilson's attorney bought him an outfit from Ralph Lauren to wear the day Wilson walks out of prison. But for now, that outfit will stay in a box." [How sad!]

"Baker's decision to appeal that ruling suggests that he has lost any sense of perspective on justice, and in turn may lose his grasp on his job as well.

"Before learning that Baker would block Wilson's release, the Rev. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta had led the inmate's mother and supporters in a prayer of thanksgiving at Bernstein's law office.

"'We pray that in the days ahead you provide purpose and direction for his life,' Warnock said, '... that Genarlow might move from a prison cell to a college classroom.'

"The words of a previous pastor at Ebenezer Baptist seem appropriate as well. As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, 'An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.'" — Maureen Downey, for the AJC editorial board

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See the details of Wilson's conduct in this post.

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Seems that the praying for Wilson's "purpose and direction for his life" and his adherence to God's "moral law" should have been done a long time before Wilson was involved in his current immorality. Have the leaders and pastors of the black community expressed the same amount of anger (or even more outrage) at the immorality involved and the prevailing immorality of a large segment of the black community?

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The Effects of Immorality

"In 2005, 69.5% of all births to non-Hispanic black women, 63.3% of births of American Indian or Alaskan native woman, and 47.9% of births to Hispanic women occurred outside of marriage, compared with 25.4% for non-Hispanic white women and 16.2% for Asian or Pacific Islander women (preliminary estimates)."

Why does it matter that 7 out of 10 children are born to black mothers who are not married?

"Women who give birth outside of marriage tend to be more disadvantaged than their married counterparts, both before and after having a nonmarital birth. Unmarried mothers generally have lower incomes, lower education levels, and greater dependence on welfare assistance than do married mothers . . . . In addition, women who have a nonmarital birth have reduced marriage prospects when compared with single women without children.

"Children born to unmarried mothers are more likely to grow up in a single-parent household, experience instability in living arrangements, live in poverty, and have socioemotional problems. As these children reach adolescence, they are more likely to have low educational attainment, engage in sex at younger ages, and have a premarital birth. As young adults, children born outside of marriage are more likely to be idle (neither in school nor employed), have lower occupational status and income, and have more troubled marriages and divorces than those born to married parents."

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I wonder, if as much effort were invested in moral education in the black community that has invested so much of its resources in pursuit of Wilson’s release, would the real problems of sexually transmitted diseases in epidemic numbers and increasing out-of-wedlock births be on the decline instead of rising? I find it sad that the children who need help the most are virtually ignored while this “child” (yes, his supporters refer to him as a child) is the center of media and community attention. Wilson will probably have a bright future as a rap star or in Hollyweird where he will fit right in.

NBC is reporting that a judge has ordered Genarlow Wilson free. This was the guy who when he was a 17 year old honor student had sex with a 15 year old girl.

He got a felony conviction and 10 years in prison as a "sex offender". The legislature this year changed the law to make it a misdemeanor when it's high school kids involved with a max of 12 months in jail but did NOT make the law retroactive.

Attorney General Thurbert Baker is appealing the judge's ruling, citing the fact that Wilson is black, the law is the law, and the fact that fine upstanding Christianists hate it when uppity colored boys have more sex in a week than they do.

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Going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
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The 12 Warning Signs of Fascism

The New York Times weighs in on the Genarlow Wilson case this morning in an editorial entitled Georgia’s Shame

I'm glad the "Romeo and Juliet" law has been amended, but I wish they'd made it retroactive.

Lakly speaks for us. Judge Floyd is wrong; Rep. Lakly is right. As for his email, Dan was referring to the mathematical term "Moran" which means disconnected and unintelligible element. So, maybe he has one up on ya Basmati. The story in the AJC about the boy who went to prison for 10 years was what should have happened. Even if you are an athlete with good grades, if you are a high school student at a drunken and drugged orgy after midnight and there are minors involved, you pay the price. Read the article. It is not a case of a 17 year old boy with a 16 year old boy with a weak moment in the back seat of Bladderq's car. It was a group orgy with young girls, oral sex and intermittent, "desultory" sex, fully videotaped. The jury was disgusted. The DA did his job. How unusual. I hope people realize that Rep. Lakly speaks for most people in Fayette. By the way, bedwetting Bladderq would not be convicted of this crime because his IQ is too low.