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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Saturday
Sep252004

Louisiana sued for failure in legal aid for poor defendants

Nine defendants in Lake Charles, who have been in jail awaiting trials for up to two years, filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Louisiana's system of defending poor people accused of crimes. The long-threatened legal action was filed in Calcasieu Parish, where public defenders represent 400 defendants apiece and, the lawsuit claims, can't possibly do an adequate job for those clients. The lawsuit is just the opening shot of a war, backed by powerful legal interests, against the state's public-defender system. Lawsuits in other parishes are expected. "We're seeking a declaration that the system is broken and an order requiring it to be fixed," said attorney William Jeffress of Washington, D.C., part of the legal team handling the lawsuit. The Calcasieu Parish lawsuit seeks no specific remedies, and no action is expected for some time. More public defenders, paid higher salaries, has been cited as one solution. The state board that hands out state money for public defenders got only $7.8 million this year, a third of what the state Supreme Court recommended. Critics say the system also relies too much on unreliable local revenue. [more ]