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¨“There are four kinds of people in this world - black people, white people, red necks, and n_____," Gosnell told the defendant, as quoted by the court finding.¨
He remained Chief Magistrate after saying that?! The headline’s misleading: he didn’t just ¨once (use) the N-word," he endorsed full-bore racism lock, stock, and barrel.
It must be all Obama’s fault for using the word on the WTF podcast.
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But still a magistrate judge? The video of the bizarre bond hearing he conducted should be Exhibit A when he’s brought up on charges of judicial misconduct.
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So he used the word nigger…in a judicial action in which he presided and that was worthy only of a reprimand? How’d the Black guy fare? Did anyone consider that someone so entrenched in that thinking he did not feel the need to be cautious in the use of its language in a courtroom…as a fucking Judge…might not be emotionally or psychologically fit to be that Judge? Someone thought you could reprimand that crap away?
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There is a fifth group: racists.
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I knew there was something wrong about that guy from the beginning. What judge makes a fucking statement at a bond hearing like he did anyway, and allows victim impact statements entered into the record, even before a trial?
Someone is gonna have to go back and do a thorough judicial review of all his cases, particularly any cases involving African Americans, either as defendants or plaintiffs. He shouldn’t be allowed to get off scot-free. Pre-judging kind of defeats the purpose to a fair hearing from of a judge. And he clearly is one prejudice judge.
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I didn’t think about it at the time but you’re right. The family members were forgiving a man who at the time was innocent until proven guilty.
Very strange. What was the judges motivation?
Bigotry still endorsed by SC courts…no progress here.
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This judge’s responsibility is to the victims and their families and not to the family of the shooter. His family helped mold the little monster and his father found it appropriate to purchase a young man who had failed at everything in life but who blamed others for his failures a gun for his birthday.
That young man was reclusive, obviously irresponsible, hate-filled, lazy and totally without appropriate behavior, but his father bought him a gun. If the judge feels badly for his family, then he has no business whatsoever in being a magistrate.
I suspect South Carolina is going to be hard pressed to find a judge that isn’t an old white bigot.
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As long as old white men are only considered, you are most likely right.
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That Dylan Roof has sympathizers is no surprise or that those sympathizers are in high places isn’t either.
This judge, like the flag, are just being brought out into the national spotlight and from that stage they are seen for the wrong that they represent. No more getting away with representing racism in your neck of the woods without some serious public scrutiny anyways.
GOP discovers racism:
Judge uses the n-word in open court, 2003
Avowed racist murders nine innocents at Emanuel AME Church, 2015
Nation hopeful GOP will soon learn global warming is real, homosexuality and heterosexuality are not a choice, women earn less pay for the same work, war is not always the answer.
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