Ellison: Bangers are Political Prisoners!
Katherine Kersten - the Strib's token good columnist - on Keith Ellison's corrosive relativism:
As a criminal defense attorney, Ellison told the crowd, he saw “startling similarities” between Soliah and the gang members he represents: Bloods, Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples. He portrayed gang members as misunderstood victims, ordinary folks whose parents “scrimp, save… maybe sell plates of BBQ chicken so Junior can get an attorney.”
Gangs are “stigmatized” and “vilified,” he explained, just as Soliah’s Symbionese Liberation Army was. “Nobody ever knows what it means to BE a Blood,” he maintained, “because they’ve already said this is ‘just evil.’ ”
Speaking as someone who lives not far from where some worthless piece of filth - color irrelevant - murdered a four-year-old girl at a gas station; it is.
In fact, in Ellison’s view, young black men in prison seemed almost to morph into civil rights advocates. “The people who govern this society,” he suggested, are “incarcerating all these young black men” in some kind of retribution for the victories of ’60s civil rights activists, and those who campaigned to “free Nelson Mandela.” For the powerful, he said, the “very idea of … black people having civil rights has got to be obliterated with [obviously] the criminal justice system and incarceration.”
Ah. So Tyesha Edwards' killer was a political prisoner!
It's all Whitey's revenge!
Note to Minneapolis; If Ellison wins, you will deserve what they get. Try not to destroy the rest of the metro while you're at it.
Posted by Mitch at
October 19, 2006 08:02 AM
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Which laws are used most often to imprison black men? The drug laws. Which laws was Keith Ellison likely talking about? The drug laws.
How does our host feel about the drug laws?
"I, for one, am ambivalent about the "war on drugs", which has killed more Americans than Vietnam or, as it happens, drugs themselves."
"The "War on Drugs" has sapped more of our civil liberties than any other episode in recent history; the groundwork for easy wiretaps, no-knock warrants, property forfeiture laws and the erosion of the Fourth Amendment was laid during the crack hysteria of the '90s."
Keith Ellison and Mitch Berg - Brothers in Arms for freedom.
Posted by: RickDFL at October 19, 2006 08:55 AMMakes sense, Rick. Mitch is ambivalent about drug laws, so naturally he must also be ambivalent about people who spray gunfire in his neighborhood in pursuit of drugs or drug money or he's some kind of HYPOC-RIGHT!
And I just *adore* that construction, "laws used to imprison Black men." Perfectly encapsulates a mindset that I hope is never, ever, ever again given the opportunity to run this country. How about, "law most frequently flouted by Black men?" Would you object to that construction?
Posted by: Brian Jones at October 19, 2006 10:37 AMWhat Americans who end up in prison have in common most of all is not some status of ethnic minority--it's growing up in a fatherless home.
Posted by: RBMN at October 19, 2006 11:08 AMSomehow I have corrupted with the idea that the reason people end up in prison is because they chose to break the law.
Silly me. Now I understand that it's because of the injustice of outlawing drugs. And somehow it seems to affect Crips and Bloods the most.
Actually, I think Ellison is on to something with his observation of '“startling similarities” between Soliah and the gang members he represents: Bloods, Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples.' Violent psychopaths who have no compunctions about murder.
Posted by: Scott at October 19, 2006 12:01 PMIf Ellison wins, maybe we can build one of those huge walls to protect the rest of the metro area from the 5th district...
Posted by: goodeats4life at October 19, 2006 03:05 PM