Just another reason why black people need to break away from religion. As long as we stick so closely to those Christian ideals forcibly beaten into us we will always be tied and adhere to white supremacy.
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Amber Guyger found guilty of murder at trial in fatal shooting of neighbor Botham Jean [Sentence 10 years]
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No thats just some Christian Bullshit that lets abusers get away with abuse because their victims have to "forgive" them.
No.
We just need to find a way to love and value ourselves.
You can bet your ass neither Dr. King nor Brother Malcolm would have been huging on the murder of yet another black body.
There is nothing wrong with forgiveness. It is a necessity in life. However, due punishment and consequences must be applied. That's what we call justice, and Dr. King and Brother Malcolm were very much committed to it. Without that, you never have proper and proportional system of consequences. You can forgive while still demand justice be served.
This was a sentence but it wasn't justice. Your preferred God has nothing to do with that.
You could just come out and say that women are more likely to receive sympathy from people than men are but this not the way to do it.
Both should've been locked away for 25 to life.
They killed an innocent person. What more can you take from an innocent person than their life?
The commonality here is that they are both cops.
Yeah it should have been more severe, but it's extremely more palatable then getting off.
Allison Jean's speech was both inspiring and heartbreaking.
10 fucking years for the murderer that took her son's life.
Shit will just never fucking change and it makes me sick.
10 fucking years for the murderer that took her son's life.
Shit will just never fucking change and it makes me sick.
I'm always very conflicted in situations like this because only white (or rich) people are afforded the relative leniency I'd prefer to see across the board
It's more like people see it as the visual symbol of the light sentence. Murder in cold blood? Ah poor baby, here's some compassion. I'm upset at the jury more than anyone, with the judge a close second.
meanwhile in Texas
'Texas mother Crystal Mason appeals five-year sentence for illegal voting'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/us/texas-woman-ineligible-voting-appeal/index.html
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I hope you get killed in prison you racist piece of shit
I hope you get killed in prison you racist piece of shit
If a murder was a "hot headed" action that caused the death of a person, then shouldn't the sentence be both based on severity of the crime and chance of recommitting once back in society?
Part of the need to reform prisons isn't just remove the bullshit of private prisons or non-violent offenders, but the need to actually have our penal system attempt to reform people and not just be a punishment. Obviously if someone is a risk to society their length changes, but this is a case that is essentially a 2nd degree murder (which isn't a thing in Texas but the situation presented shows it's more similar to a non-predetermined murder than a predetermined one).
2nd Degree murder ranges in a lot of states, but 10 years with parole isn't exactly that outlandish, although it's on the low end of time for some states.
So in this case, she is serving five years minimum before parole, which when compared to a parallel case of a person of color is probably going to be shockingly low, but that's the entire point of fixing our justice system. It's not to make sentencing longer for others as some type of "payback", it's to make sentencing just for everyone.
Alright. In the meantime, before this fated fixing of the justice system, black people should continue to enjoy disproportionate sentencing compared to white, cop counterparts and just shrug when sentencings like Guyger's happen again, and again, and again.
Who is shrugging? I might not have made the point clear, but when I said shockingly low I also meant it that the actual length of time should be higher spent in prison. But the point that prison should be reform based and not punishment based still stands, and people wanting life sentence for what amounts to 2nd degree murder isn't really justifiable.
Her getting off in five years should be plastered everywhere as the typical injustice that the system creates while people of color are thrown in jail for similar lengths of times for robberies, non-violent drug offenses and so forth.
Fixing the system is giving her 10 years in which she will likely serve 5 for literally gunning down a innocent black man in his apartment?
Just last year a black man in Mississippi got hit with 8 years for having weed on him and I'm supposed to believe that the system can be commensurate with whatever it deems as just?
My office had a television playing 24-7 CNN during the Charleston massacre and for days I had to watch CNN talk about how courageous the black christians were in the town and they kept on trotting out people talking about forgiving the killer. I found that coverage extremely disturbing
It's just a way to focus on the individual ("Poor crying white girl") and to avoid the anger that could actually get some reform done on an institutional level like, i dunno, police reform that won't let a cop leave the scene of a murder for days until public pressure forces them to charger her with manslaughter or let them leak to the news that a trace amount of marijuana was found in the apartment as if it justified the murder when this all went down
It's just a way to focus on the individual ("Poor crying white girl") and to avoid the anger that could actually get some reform done on an institutional level like, i dunno, police reform that won't let a cop leave the scene of a murder for days until public pressure forces them to charger her with manslaughter or let them leak to the news that a trace amount of marijuana was found in the apartment as if it justified the murder when this all went down
I thought guyger chose jury for sentencing?
If so (and apologies if I'm mistaken but I think I read that) why'd the jury, mostly minorities, opt to go so soft?
EDIT: caught up on the news, sorry. Probably because of the family's wishes? Seems they are forgiveness focused.
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I genuinely don't understand how anyone can be even the least bit surprised by this at this point.
yeah, I admire the capability of the brother to do this at all, but the judge doing it is reprehensible imo. just not appropriate relative to her position.
