This is a very insightful article written by a liberal Public Defender about his defense of black people. At first I thought it was too long to read, but when I got into it I couldn’t stop reading.
Still liberal after all these years.
I am a public defender in a large southern metropolitan area. Fewer than ten percent of the people in the area I serve are black but over 90 per cent of my clients are black. The remaining ten percent are mainly Hispanics but there are a few whites.
I have explanation for why this is, but crime has racial patterns. Hispanics usually commit two kinds of crime: sexual assault on children and driving under the influence. Blacks commit many violent crimes but very few sex crimes. The handful of whites I see commit all kinds of crimes. In my many years as a public defender I have represented only three Asians, and one was half black.
As a young lawyer, I believed the official story that blacks are law abiding, intelligent, family-oriented people, but are so poor they must turn to crime to…
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I saw the same attitudes teaching 33 years Miami high schools . It is insensitive to stereotype but far too many people are exactly as described. It is very disheartening.