Daily Show Takes ‘Racist Timeout’ For Trayvon Martin Coverage
Wednesday night’s edition of “The Daily Show” featured a discussion in which correspondent Larry Wilmore produced a home kitchen timer and declared a “Racist Timeout.”
“For the next five minutes,” he announced, “No one is a racist.”
Accusations of racism and reaction to those charges have caused the debate over the Trayvon Martin case to rapidly overheat. Wilmore’s declaration of a charges-of-racism free zone was a legitimate — but still funny — means of striking at some kind of greater truth in the argument.
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—U.S. v. Jannotti, 673 F.2d 578, 614
(3d Cir. 1982)
Give me your honest definition of a police state, and I will introduce you to US legislation and government behavior that appeals to your definition. I'm serious.
If you're the type of person who thinks "some cops are good", please, read this before you send me hate mail.
On this blog, you will find political and legal quotes, political content, of course police brutality, and evidence of the existence of a police state in the USA. You'll also find a blatant and embarrassing record of failure in the Criminal Justice System. This blog is not for conspiracy theory.
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