Blogging Arizona Libro Traficante
What happened in AZ was a travesty . . . a hoax, a cruel joke! . . . We cannot have an honest and ethical society politically if we do not have an honest and ethical system educationally.
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Author: Roger
Patty and Roger
My friend Patty
Read MoreAN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITORS OF THE NAACP
It leaves thousands of people bewildered and angry because they do not understand the necessary distinctions that sometimes must be made in the judicial system between popular sentiment and the applicable legal standard. What happened to Trayvon Martin was tragic and entirely avoidable but the legal definition of second degree murder was not met; the jury did not and could not find otherwise.
Read MoreVirginia Law Supreme Court 2002
The Court will not entertain as a viable option any proposed limitation on freedom of speech, save that demonstrated to meet the most stringent standards for an “exception to the rule” based on clear constitutional principle . . . . The Klan’s cross-burning in association with violence and crime of this nature is too well documented over the years to become the object of dispute here . . . .To reduce this issue to a legalistic quibble is an insult to the pain and suffering of millions of Americans and their descendants; the Virginia statute is therefore upheld as Constitutional, with the above objections, appendages, and minority reports yet to come, duly noted.
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Abraham Lincoln and Black Progress
In each of these years there is a remark or action of Lincoln’s that can be described as prejudiced and yet there is a deeper underlying current that is carrying Lincoln and the nation forward. By comparing 1860 to 1865, we see the tremendous changes that have occurred in the fortunes of Black people while Lincoln was president.
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