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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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As I mentioned, I was a supervisor, but I did not supervise the lawyer I am about to describe. I will call him Paul. He was a white man in his late forties or early fifties--a career public defender. He was back in the lockup talking to a client, as was I. Behind every courtroom in the criminal courts are lockups where pretrial detainees wait until their cases are called. This particular lockup is about fifty by twenty feet, with open bars so you could approach your client and speak to him through the bars with no obstruction. There is a "privacy panel" with a toilet toward the back. It isn't very private, and you learn to ignore it and not "see" it.

On this day, I was trying to speak to my client again about the motions we were filing and reporting to him about an investigation. Since these lockups are not very private--there can be as many as thirty or forty men back there (usually all are men of color)--I told my client that we would discuss everything more when I came to see him at the jail later that week. But I could hardly even say that much because Paul was yelling at his client nearby. From what I could gather, this client had been arrested later than his codefendant. Paul had worked out what he believed was an advantageous plea for the codefendant. I am sure it was a good plea deal, but he was meeting this client for the first time and was trying to strong-arm him into taking the deal, as it was apparently a package for either both codefendants or neither. Paul called him stupid. He used pejorative terms such as "mope" and "ignorant gangbanger." He  [*757]  told the client that he--the client--could "do six [years] standing on his head." And worse.

I was pretty sure that Paul would never have spoken to a white eighteen- or nineteen-year-old young man in the same demeaning way. They were both yelling at each other, and the entire lockup was listening. I doubt that the interaction was a product of Paul's conscious thought, but it is this unconscious bias that is so difficult to address and therefore is the focus of this Article.


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