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18971, RE: Thurgood Marshall
Posted by application, Sat Feb-03-01 01:14 PM
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>>What do you think of Thurgood
>>Marshall's precedent that it's better
>>to let 100 guilty men
>>go free then punish one
>>innocent?
>
>I'd prefer 100 guilty men go
>free. But that's how
>are system is designed.
>It predisposes the person to
>innocence.
>

Who's an idealist now? That's how are system is supposed to work but in reality a black or latino person as guilty as soon as a racist cop pulls him over. Our system is supposed to predispose a person towards innocence, but we are all too intelligent to believe that this is reality.

-Ryan

"Police don't sweep to get the dust out
They want your name in the system,
I need to mention the death penalty is
legal lynchin
People listen, they got teenagers up in
the line up
To fill the new facility they built,
they need the crime up
Please, the war on drugs is really war
on the youth
War on the people
War on the truth
The violent crimes rise,
the silent dies as sirens cry through
the night
People fight for what's left and not
what's right"

-Talib Kweli