I personally was shocked to hear AG Holder sound off recently about what he says appears to be racial bias in the enforcement of the nations laws.
And even more shocked when the word he used to describe this practice was "shameful".
Well Eric guess what, this "shame" has been going on for 40 years now and you are apparently the only person on the planet who just became aware of it.
And shameful is not the proper word to describe the practice.
The Justice meted out to black people in Northern cities for the past 40 years is no different than the Justice meted about by the Klu Klux Klan in the south for the first hundred years after the emancipation proclamation and the words that describe those actions are
Barbaric, Criminal, misuse of public office, violation of oath of office, dereliction of duty, criminally negligent homicide, etc etc
The only thing that is going to come close to rivaling this kind of understatement will be 40 years from now when some public official finally has the courage to step up and say that for the past 100 years or so medical doctors in the US have been performing medical murder on an enormous scale and doing it for the worst of reasons - medical incompetence, total indifference to the Hippocratic Oath and worst of all the blatant pursuit of personal profit.
But this shit, like the shit that goes on everyday on Wall Street, will only end when the perpetrators instead of being fined pennies per stolen dollar actually end up serving long prison sentences and in some cases end up being executed.
So if you are shocked and shamed by what you are witnessing it is within your power to do something about it.- so do it.
And don't forget to go after the doctors as well as the banksters and the currently corrupt members ( Judges, DA's and Cops ) of the criminal justice system
In closing let me leave you with one of the greatest poems ever written . Edgar Lee Masters was once a law partner with Clarence Darrow. He knew the system very well. By the way this poem was published in 1916 so corruption of the Criminal Justice System did not just start with the Race Riots of the 60's
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916.
125. Carl Hamblin
THE PRESS of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,
And I was tarred and feathered,
For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago:
“I saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes
Standing on the steps of a marble temple.
Great multitudes passed in front of her,
Lifting their faces to her imploringly.
In her left hand she held a sword.
She was brandishing the sword,
Sometimes striking a child, again a laborer,
Again a slinking woman, again a lunatic.
In her right hand she held a scale;
Into the scale pieces of gold were tossed
By those who dodged the strokes of the sword.
A man in a black gown read from a manuscript:
‘She is no respecter of persons.’
Then a youth wearing a red cap
Leaped to her side and snatched away the bandage.
And lo, the lashes had been eaten away
From the oozy eye-lids;
The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus;
The madness of a dying soul
Was written on her face—
But the multitude saw why she wore the bandage.”