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re: Is the term "Uncle Tom" racist? [W:56]
He's a traitor because Davis was black. You said it already, if Davis had been white, Thomas would not be a traitor. Race is the deciding factor. I'm not at all sure why you can't admit that which you've already said. Now, are you saying that any judge that presides over a court in which a black defendant gets the death penalty is an Uncle Tom?
Thomas was a traitor because he allowed Troy Davis to be killed when there was evidence that the allegations against him were forced. He is a traitor because he allowed Troy Davis to be a victim of the racism within the death penalty.
"Anyone who doubts the death penalty’s past connection with racism need only consider this statistic: Between 1930 and 1967 (at which point executions stopped pending a decade-long Supreme Court overhaul of the death penalty), 54 percent of the 3,859 people put to death under civilian authority in the U.S. were African American. This was not only out of proportion with the black share of the total population but also out of proportion with the percentage of serious crimes committed by blacks. Given that history, lingering racism is an undeniable risk factor looming over today’s system." The Death Penalty and Racism - Charles Lane - The American Interest Magazine
"Several years after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a University of Iowa law professor, David C. Baldus (who died last month), along with two colleagues, published a study examining more than 2,000 homicides that took place in Georgia beginning in 1972. They found that black defendants were 1.7 times more likely to receive the death penalty than white defendants and that murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed blacks." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/opinion/09dow.html?_r=0
He's a traitor because Davis was black. You said it already, if Davis had been white, Thomas would not be a traitor. Race is the deciding factor. I'm not at all sure why you can't admit that which you've already said. Now, are you saying that any judge that presides over a court in which a black defendant gets the death penalty is an Uncle Tom?