Our ugly past

[GOPFighter]

The 1963 training manual for the Dallas (TX) district attorney's office stated: "Do not take Jews, Negroes, Dagos, Mexicans or a member of any minority race on a jury, no matter how rich or how well educated."

Read in 2004, this is breathtakingly ugly, but what's even uglier is that the judicial system in Texas sees no reason it should be changed.

This is a good editorial from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41805-2004Dec6.html

It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court responds to this slap in the face.

--To compound my disgust, the lone dissenter from the original court decision was Clarence Thomas(!!!!) And whose opinion did the lower court base their rejection on? No other than C.T.!--

[msgadget]

1. Not the past at all

Thanks for that link, GOP.

Isn't it amazing how there are always those of the race willing to help the other side?:

>The only African American not challenged was one who declared that lethal injection is "too quick. They don't feel the pain. . . . What I call punishment is back to the old Indian days. . . . Pour some honey on them and stake them out over an ant bed." <

and here's ol' Clarence helping the cause:

>Amazingly, both the Texas court system and the 5th Circuit judges have consistently approved the prosecutors' conduct. In the last go-round, the 5th Circuit declined even to hear the case, contending that reasonable judges could not disagree on the subject. After eight Supreme Court justices disagreed and ordered the lower court to consider the merits of Mr. Miller-El's claims, the lower court rejected them -- using passages lifted nearly verbatim from Justice Clarence Thomas's lone dissent. <

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Sad isn't it?

They'll be ready to take it down when their race BECOMES a minority. Sigh!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Won't happen.

They'll exterminate before they relinquish majority power.