White privilege in a nutshell

[Soph0571]

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Same judge?

[RVN VET71]

2. Yep.

[ancianita]

3. It's also black oppression. Let's not privilege white privilege here.

[thbobby]

4. Horrified by what our country has become?

Fuck no. I am horrified by what our country has always been (at least in my lifetime). Rage doesn't begin to describe what should be felt by this.

[Oerdin]

5. Bad example.

That is a really bad example as you don't list the differences between the cases. I am 100% certain that if we read the individual cases and compare the differences in law between different states we will find the reasons without resorting to your racist antics.

[Red Pest]

8. Huh???

Are you being sarcastic? Really, theft of shoes v rape ... of a 5 yr old? Already stated above that it was the same judge in both cases. And you accuse the poster of racist antics. Wow. Is this a case of trolling?

[sl8]

17. Different judges in different states

Burgess was sentenced by Judge Ron Northup, in Stockton, CA.

Davis was sentenced by Judge Bobby Peters, in Columbus, GA.

[treestar]

16. I agree ; at least explain the states, the charges and

the possible penalties. Even so, it sounds disproportionate in the extreme, but every one of these comparisons will suffer from the failure to note the different parts of the country, laws, judges, etc. The age difference could be a factor - is the 79 year old ill at this point. The 15 year old needs to learn whereas the old man won't.

[Duppers]

20. You can't be serious!

[smirkymonkey]

6. Sickening.

This is seriously fucked up!

[Tarc]

7. White privilege exists and is serious, don't water it down with piss-poor stories like this

The 15 yr old arranged to meet the shoe seller, kid said "these shoes is took", friend pulls a gun.

Sorry, but that's being an accomplice to an armed robbery. Zero sympathy here whatsoever.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article212275254.html

[gollygee]

9. Nobody thinks he doesn't deserve punishment

He committed this crime at 15 and doesn't deserve to go to adult prison. And, conversely, the child-rapist does. It's the comparison of the crimes, not a statement that the 15-year-old doesn't deserve to go to a juvenile detention facility. Adult prison for a first offense? Where nobody got killed? And the child-rapist only got house arrest?

[Tarc]

12. The solution is to raise the penalty on the white pedophile

Not lessen it on the black teen. Sorry, but armed robbery is a bit of a bright line for me.

If we're supportive of the Parkland students as they go after the gun lobby, we really can't turn around an ignore gun crimes when they happen.

[gollygee]

13. I said he deserves punishment

so I'm not ignoring anything. But 15-year-olds used to only get charged as adults when they had killed someone, and then not always.

[Tipperary]

10. Lol.

“These shoes is took?”

Hope he gets some English lessons in prison.

[Tarc]

11. That's highly inappropriate. We can discuss the appropriateness of the punishment

without resorting to ridiculing African-American Vernacular. C'mon now...

[Tipperary]

14. That is not vernacular.

I know no one who talks like that...black or white, unless they have poor English skills.

[Blue_true]

15. That is just freaking bad English.

What chance do you think a person who speaks like that has of getting a meaningful job? We need to be pressuring kids to learn to speak properly, not hand waving speech behavior that will insure economic hardship. A person can yell systemic racism all they want, the ability to speak and write clearly is simple vital in business and all aspects of a working society.

[gollygee]

18. Have you not heard of code-switching?

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/13/177126294/five-reasons-why-people-code-switch

[Blue_true]

21. So you are claiming that kid would stand before a Court and give an eloquent and powerful closing

argument, when it appears he has a problem forming a clear sentence. Neither of us was there to witness what he said, so please don't pull the "you weren't there thing on me". What I read in the article was a kid using English in a way that will get him nowhere in life.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. Shoes? That is f'ed up.

Way too extreme a punishment for the crime. I hope some kind lawyer out there will help that boy to get more lenient sentence.