NAACP Tracks Police Misconduct
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SmarterthanYou
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no, you'd be the one with fantasies of what happened yesterday or last week, things that never really happened.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
My brother .. you study the NAACP and its history.
Currently, but not exclusively, the NAACP is helping prisoners in Virginia restore their lives and citizenship .. 90% of whom are white.
Question: why would you be against identifying ANY form of police abuse at ANYTIME by ANYBODY.
African-Americans are the largest victims of police abuse .. would it not be more than intelligent to establish methods of self-defense against such criminal acts?
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blackascoal
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They'll address it with scrutiny .. more scrutiny than a police officer making a false claim against you.
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do you have a link or where did you hear or read this?
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
NAACP spearheads prison vote drive in Maine
I read it months ago, but I'll dig to find the link about Virginia .. here's one on Maine ..
The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive.
The relatively few votes at stake _ only a few hundred _ mean the drive's potential to affect outcomes this fall on such issues as gay marriage, marijuana laws and tax limits is low.
Though prison inmates tend to skew to the Democratic side, the drive isn't about furthering any political agenda, said Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"It's about establishing strong voter patterns and becoming a fully functioning person to re-enter society," Ross said. "It's part of the rehabilitation and re-entry process."
The NAACP is wrapping up its effort in Maine prisons this week. After next June's primary election, the organization plans to lead another drive at all 15 county jails, as well as state prisons.
It's not focusing just on black inmates.
Volunteers already have registered an estimated 200 or more inmates at five of the state's seven adult correctional centers. The Maine State Prison's NAACP chapter _ the only one of its kind in New England _ has 70 members, many of them white, including the branch president, Ross said.
Randal Horr, a 49-year-old white inmate at the Bolduc minimum-security prison in Warren, registered as a Democrat when volunteers arrived. Going through the voting process helps him feel connected to the outside world and will help when he is released, he said.
In November's election, he said, he plans to vote for state and municipal tax and spending limits and liberalizing medical marijuana laws. He's not sure how he'll vote on whether to overturn a state law allowing gay marriage.
"Having that access to the vote makes a difference. It makes me feel I'm continuing in the loop of the community and society. You feel like you count," said Horr, who has served nearly nine years of an 11 1/2-year sentence for habitual drunken driving.
State laws giving convicted felons the right to vote vary. About 5.3 million people nationwide are barred from voting because of criminal convictions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union
http://srnnews.townhall.com/news/us/2009/10/05/naacp_spearheads_prison_vote_drive_in_maine
SmarterthanYou
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this should have made the media. sad that it hasn't. If they are indeed helping black AND white prisoners, then I may indeed owe them an apology.
It has been my experience that it doesn't matter what color any victim of police brutality or harrassment is, there is rarely any justice.
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unless your username is socrtease.....subparagraph 2.334 of paragraph 5.1 of section X
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
It didn't make national news and there is hardly a link to the information. I'm sure it's on the NAACP website .. but I don't have time to search for it until I quit working.
and you're right brother .. that's sad .. but predictable.
I does matter my friend .. but your point is well-taken in that it affects us all.
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cool.....so the national association for the advancement of colored people is now advancing so called non colored people....
mayhap they should change their name....and last i checked, we're all colored
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
No more or less than the misuse of current systems involving informants, anonymous tips, and the like. Cops have a system to weed out the phonies....it's not perfect, but it does keep down wasting a lot of time on crazies and false leads.
Taichiliberal
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To date you have not provided one scintilla of fact based evidence to support your original conclusion. I and others pointed out how your assertion just doesn't make logical sense. The chronology of the posts proves me out on this.
Laugh that one off, chuckles.
Billy the Great Khan
Uwaa OmO
My experience with cops has never been good, as may be indicated by some of my comments here. However, I am always skeptical and feel a need to question, and in all reality it will probably not affect me much. If someone wrongs me, I will more than likely correct it myself.
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Since BAC already schooled you on this in the interim, I'll assume that you'll not shoot your mouth off before you really know something in the future.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
stfu, retard. don't assume jack shit, especially when you're wrong 90% of the time.
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
stfu, retard. Brilliant retort for one who claims to be smarter than everyone else!don't assume jack shit, Does this mean that you're STILL going to bray like an ass even after the board records you admitting you're wrong to BAC on one point? That doesn't speak well towards your mental stability, chuckles. Either that or you're just being stubborn to the point of insipidness. especially when you're wrong 90% of the time.
Says the man who has yet to muster the courage and flat out admit he was wrong regarding his initial statement on this particular thread.
Grow up, will ya?
SmarterthanYou
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in case you hadn't noticed, dimwit, I did that.
take your own advice, buffy.
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Do you really think that calling someone a girl is an insult to an adult? Man, when you're caught being a blithering bumpkin, you just go all to pieces, don't ya? Oh well, carry on!