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Originally Posted by IHeartUGA
I'm from Savannah and you can all stop believing all this BS the media is stirring up about Troy Davis because THE MAN IS GUILTY.
I'm not here to argue about the death penalty with any of you because I am actually against it. HOWEVER....I'm freaking tired of all of this "I am Troy Davis!" "He's Innocent!" bullcrap. The state of Georgia allows for the death penalty and a jury of his peers decided that he deserved it after shooting 2 men in the face on the same damn day. Their decision, not mine [see first sentence of this paragraph]. If you don't like the death penalty, write your Congressmen, not Greekchat.
Anywho...
To illustrate my point, I present the eloquent words of one Ann Coulter (whether you like her or not, she has expressed everything that I'm too tired to write myself at this hour):
One last thing. We would have actual physical blood splatter evidence all over Troy Davis' blood-soaked shorts BUT HIS MOTHER WASHED THEM RIGHT BEFORE HE FLED TO ATLANTA AFTER SHOOTING THE OFFICER that very night.
Yeah, you read that right. He shoots a guy in the face, then shoots an officer in the chest and the face, runs to his momma's house so she can destroy the bloody evidence [note: this tends happens when you stand over someone and shoot them in the face...you will most definitely get blood on your shorts], then flees to Atlanta immediately thereafter.
Innocent? Give me a moafs;ladkfjsdf;oifn;lk BREAK!
If you're bored, read this article, too: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/0...ve-troy-davis/. It helps explain how the bullshit argument of "The other guy did it! The whitnesses said so!" is just that. BULLSHIT. |
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Originally Posted by IHeartUGA
I will try my best not to be rude here...the race card had absolutely nothing to do with this case. How is that, you ask?
7 of the 12 jurors were black. The first guy he shot that day (in the face by the way) was, you guessed it, black. Almost all of the people who testified against him were, holycraphowdidthishappen, BLACK.
This wasn't about race.
Spare me.
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I will not try my best not to be rude here....
1. Race is not a card and only idiots use the "race card" phrase.
2. You say that race is not a factor yet you rant and rave about the Black jurors, Black victim, and Black eye witnesses as though their Blackness proves a point. Make up your mind.
These are not mathematical equations with
Black (+1) + Black (-1)= NO BLACK (0). If it could be an equation, it would be
Black (1) + Black (1) = A WHOLE LOTTA BLACK (2). Most violent crimes are intraracial with eye witnesses (when they come forward) of the same race as the alleged perpetrator. They did a better job with the "jury of your peers" than happens in many cases with racial and ethnic minority defendants. But, all of that Black does not erase the correlates of race that permeate society and therefore the criminal justice and legal systems (even when all parts of the cj and legal system are themselves not racist or discriminatory, as William Wilbanks posited in his 1987
The Myth of a Racist Criminal Justice System)
3. As my post that you so incorrectly replied to states, the cause for equality is not about agreeing or disagree with the Troy Davis case or any single case. I do not believe he was innocent yet I believe his case is like other cases that speak to a number of factors that researchers and social activists pay attention to.
4. Stop pretending as though you hold some objective truth. Based on your tone and your words, you are pretending as though you have some inside knowledge and that the media is not fueling your viewpoint. Where did you get YOUR information from? Don't answer, I already know you got it from the media.
5. Spare yourself. These topics do not stop being about the death penalty, race, social class or other extralegal and legal factors based on whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. Learn that.
Thanks for joining us.