Quote:The only reason that it "sounds pretty bad" is because the author didn't edit his article to be politically correct.  Go hang out at a courthouse sometime and observe for yourself.  What he says is pretty typical and true.

 

I believe that some of the things he said are what really need to be addressed not only by the black community, but society as a whole.  To be fair, in my experience the same line could be said by many numbers of whites and hispanics that have been arrested for violent crimes.  This author is a Public Defender in large southern metropolitan area.  His experience differs much from mine in that I was a LEO in a southwestern metropolitan area, but the observations are pretty much the same.

 

As far as being in "the south", I saw it first hand when my son (white step-son actually) unfortunately got himself into trouble a while back.  What he described as being kind of a "social scene", the dress and demeanor of blacks was pretty accurate not only in the Clay County Courthouse, but also in the Duval County Courthouse.