The hard cold truth of modern style racism

[Lastamender]

Being a judge is based on merit, not color.

Actually no. Often merit has little to do with it.

Then what does?

It is highly variable, depending on where and what level. Some are selected, some are appointed with political patronage in mind, some are talented some are incompetent.

Then it is not racism?

It can be. Lots of different reasons.

So far from what you have said you have no idea. Were done here.

 

[Correll]

Lets stop denying the obvious here. 18 states have never had a person of color on their state supreme court. To think there has not been one person of color that on merit did not qualify EVER is straight up insane.

Please provide stats showing where any non white qualified person applied but was turned down.

An example for discussion purposes would also be helpful.

 

[IM2]

Actually no. Often merit has little to do with it.

Then what does?

It is highly variable, depending on where and what level. Some are selected, some are appointed with political patronage in mind, some are talented some are incompetent.

Then it is not racism?

It can be. Lots of different reasons.

So far from what you have said you have no idea. Were done here.

You might be done but this is not your thread.

 

[MizMolly]

Why don't you research how many black prison wardens there are.Since the majority of prisoners are black it would make sense to have mostly black prison wardens.We needs some diversity.

We'll look at the people that determine prison time, thank you.

You didnt answer the question

 

[MizMolly]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Or partisan. Many you guys shouldn't have put all your eggs in one basket.

LOL he can't deny that it is racist to vote against someone just because they are white.

 

[IM2]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Lumping asians, blacks, hispanics and native americans all in a big group that is supposedly the antithesis of white males is racist and sexist. And stupid.

Blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist to you but actual racism.

 

[Correll]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Or partisan. Many you guys shouldn't have put all your eggs in one basket.

LOL he can't deny that it is racist to vote against someone just because they are white.

I would not put anything past a lefty.

 

[IM2]

As of this very second, 24 states have all white supreme courts. 18 state supreme courts have NEVER had a non white justice. In 2019. Yet in places like this people want to argue about how things are all in the past, or some other silly auto response some whites have when people of color speak truth.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve
A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.
Alicia Bannon, Laila Robbins
July 23, 2019

We spent a year studying the gender and racial makeup of state supreme courts, which are typically the final arbiters on state law. Our new report, State Supreme Court Diversity, paints a bleak picture of the demographic makeup of these powerful courts. It also points to judicial elections as a key inflection point for addressing the racial disparities we found.

Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.

Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.

Eighteen states have never had a Black justice on their state supreme court. And 13 states have not seated a single justice of color since at least 1960, the earliest year for which we had comprehensive data.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve

Being a judge is based on merit, not color.

Bullshit. Read this, then be quiet.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

What race baiter said that? Source please.

Learn to read. Then you would know.

Learn to source what you post. The rules are the same for you.

Learn to read and you will see the source.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Why don't you research how many black prison wardens there are.Since the majority of prisoners are black it would make sense to have mostly black prison wardens.We needs some diversity.

Are you a racist?

What a strange question to ask him. Why not just answer the question?

Because based on his comment I was making certain suppositions and I didn't want to do that, so I asked him if he was a racist. Some I have asked have admitted that they are.

Is that a satisfactory enough answer for you?

 

[MizMolly]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Lumping asians, blacks, hispanics and native americans all in a big group that is supposedly the antithesis of white males is racist and sexist. And stupid.

Blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist to you but actual racism.

You ASSume that people are racist just because there are no "people of color" on the supreme courts. But you you are okay to vote against someone just because they are white...THAT IS racist.

 

[Marion Morrison]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Lumping asians, blacks, hispanics and native americans all in a big group that is supposedly the antithesis of white males is racist and sexist. And stupid.

Blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist to you but actual racism.

You ASSume that people are racist just because there are no "people of color" on the supreme courts. But you you are okay to vote against someone just because they are white...THAT IS racist.

Clarence Thomas is not white. Leftists tried all the sexual tactics on him, too.

 

[IM2]

Eye. Cue. (Get it?)

African Americans have an AVERAGE IQ of 85-90. If one assumes (quite reasonably, I should think) that a competent judge should have an IQ of 130 or better, that threshold means that only 5% of WHITE PEOPLE have the intellectual firepower to be a competent judge, but for African Americans, the 130 threshold is THREE standard deviations above the mean,. This means that only approximately three-tenths of one percent of African Americans are "qualified" to be judges - on the same basis as a "white person" would be qualified.

So to expect African Americans to be judges (State Supreme Courts or otherwise) in the same proportion as their gross numbers in the general population is statistical folly.

And one must also consider the options that are available to an African American of superior intellect. How many of them have the time and resources to spend four years in college, three years in law school, etc., etc., etc. Better they should be entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and even EDUCATORS.

To suppose, or to claim that it is RACISM that explains the low numbers of African American state Supreme Court judges, is slanderous bullshit, or founded in incredible ignorance.

Why not just be honest and blame it on DONALD TRUMP???!!!!

It's racist. What was incredibly ignorant was your entire post.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

As of this very second, 24 states have all white supreme courts. 18 state supreme courts have NEVER had a non white justice. In 2019. Yet in places like this people want to argue about how things are all in the past, or some other silly auto response some whites have when people of color speak truth.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve
A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.
Alicia Bannon, Laila Robbins
July 23, 2019

We spent a year studying the gender and racial makeup of state supreme courts, which are typically the final arbiters on state law. Our new report, State Supreme Court Diversity, paints a bleak picture of the demographic makeup of these powerful courts. It also points to judicial elections as a key inflection point for addressing the racial disparities we found.

Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.

Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.

Eighteen states have never had a Black justice on their state supreme court. And 13 states have not seated a single justice of color since at least 1960, the earliest year for which we had comprehensive data.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve

There is nothing keeping anybody from applying for any position for any career in this country

Not anymore, at least not legally, but that's not the only way to keep out certain people that you don't want.

 

[MizMolly]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Lumping asians, blacks, hispanics and native americans all in a big group that is supposedly the antithesis of white males is racist and sexist. And stupid.

Blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist to you but actual racism.

You ASSume that people are racist just because there are no "people of color" on the supreme courts. But you you are okay to vote against someone just because they are white...THAT IS racist.

Clarence Thomas is not white. Leftists tried all the sexual tactics on him, too.

He ASSumes because there are courts with only whites they must be racist. Many fields have a majority of whites or blacks. So what? Air and opportunity.

 

[MizMolly]

As of this very second, 24 states have all white supreme courts. 18 state supreme courts have NEVER had a non white justice. In 2019. Yet in places like this people want to argue about how things are all in the past, or some other silly auto response some whites have when people of color speak truth.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve
A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.
Alicia Bannon, Laila Robbins
July 23, 2019

We spent a year studying the gender and racial makeup of state supreme courts, which are typically the final arbiters on state law. Our new report, State Supreme Court Diversity, paints a bleak picture of the demographic makeup of these powerful courts. It also points to judicial elections as a key inflection point for addressing the racial disparities we found.

Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.

Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.

Eighteen states have never had a Black justice on their state supreme court. And 13 states have not seated a single justice of color since at least 1960, the earliest year for which we had comprehensive data.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve

There is nothing keeping anybody from applying for any position for any career in this country

Not anymore, at least not legally, but that's not the only way to keep out certain people that you don't want.

Can you show where anyone with qualifications was turned down in recent history?

 

[IM2]

the idea that so-called "people of color" should unite and vote against a candidate because he's white is pretty racist.

Yawn!

The 24 states with all white supreme courts IS racist.

Lumping asians, blacks, hispanics and native americans all in a big group that is supposedly the antithesis of white males is racist and sexist. And stupid.

Blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist to you but actual racism.

You ASSume that people are racist just because there are no "people of color" on the supreme courts. But you you are okay to vote against someone just because they are white...THAT IS racist.

Clarence Thomas is not white. Leftists tried all the sexual tactics on him, too.

Why do you like blacks that denigrate black people then cry about how terrible it is for whites to criticize whites?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Don't you work in HR?

 

[MaryL]

As of this very second, 24 states have all white supreme courts. 18 state supreme courts have NEVER had a non white justice. In 2019. Yet in places like this people want to argue about how things are all in the past, or some other silly auto response some whites have when people of color speak truth.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve
A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.
Alicia Bannon, Laila Robbins
July 23, 2019

We spent a year studying the gender and racial makeup of state supreme courts, which are typically the final arbiters on state law. Our new report, State Supreme Court Diversity, paints a bleak picture of the demographic makeup of these powerful courts. It also points to judicial elections as a key inflection point for addressing the racial disparities we found.

Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.

Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.

Eighteen states have never had a Black justice on their state supreme court. And 13 states have not seated a single justice of color since at least 1960, the earliest year for which we had comprehensive data.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve

Hmm. I seen blacks murder innocent each other or intimidate whites, not too many KKK or white supremacists though. So this blame the cracker stuff rings a little hollow.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

As of this very second, 24 states have all white supreme courts. 18 state supreme courts have NEVER had a non white justice. In 2019. Yet in places like this people want to argue about how things are all in the past, or some other silly auto response some whites have when people of color speak truth.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve
A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.
Alicia Bannon, Laila Robbins
July 23, 2019

We spent a year studying the gender and racial makeup of state supreme courts, which are typically the final arbiters on state law. Our new report, State Supreme Court Diversity, paints a bleak picture of the demographic makeup of these powerful courts. It also points to judicial elections as a key inflection point for addressing the racial disparities we found.

Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.

Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.

Eighteen states have never had a Black justice on their state supreme court. And 13 states have not seated a single justice of color since at least 1960, the earliest year for which we had comprehensive data.

Elections have rarely been a path to the bench for people of color. Since 1960, only 17 justices of color have first reached the bench through an election, comprising 4 percent of initially elected justices. Comparatively, 141 justices of color were initially appointed to the bench since 1960, comprising 12 percent of all initially appointed justices.

Although candidates of color were more likely to have prior judicial experience as challengers to incumbents or as candidates for open seats, they won less often than their white counterparts.

State Supreme Courts Don’t Reflect the Diversity of the Communities They Serve

There is nothing keeping anybody from applying for any position for any career in this country

Not anymore, at least not legally, but that's not the only way to keep out certain people that you don't want.

Can you show where anyone with qualifications was turned down in recent history?

By recent history I take it you mean since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? That's when racial and other discrimination was outlawed.

 

[MaryL]

I remember this little old white lady that used to put out lemonade at a RTD bus stop. This was 1969. She was uber liberal as you can get...Beaten to death by a black male that resented whites. So, truth about that...What was the lesson? Um.. I still don't get it.. 50 years later.