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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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Wednesday
Apr162008

Supreme Court To Rule on Absolute Immunity For Prosecutors

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will decide on an appeal filed by a Los Angeles prosecutor accused of the wrongful conviction of a man who spent 25 years in prison for murder. The court's decision would set a precedent on whether prosecutors are protected by the principle of "absolute immunity" in all cases of wrongful conviction.

John Van De Kamp, the Los Angeles District Attorney in 1980 and California's Attorney General two years later, is asking justices to overturn a lower court's decision that ruled prosecutors could be sued for failing to ensure that evidence favorable to the defense is disclosed to the court.

De Kamp, who filed the appeal together with then Chief Deputy Curt Livesay, was sued by Thomas L. Goldstein for using false testimony from jailhouse informants to win a 1980 murder case. A jury found Goldstein guilty of shooting John McGinest in November 1979, and the case was based largely on testimony from a convicted felon who cooperated with the investigation in exchange for a shorter sentence. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year in favor of Goldstein, rejecting De Kamp's defense of "absolute immunity." [MORE]

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