We Agree, Judge Marvin Arrington Is No Racist!
As a former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, I completely get it. Despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom, Fulton County Superior Court judge Marvin Arrington said what needed to be said.
The parade of young black defendants in courtrooms across this country has got to stop!
"I came out and saw the defendants, about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and some point time I excused some of the lawyers, most of them white, and said to the young people in here 'What in the world are you doing with your lives.'"
Arrington said he thought his message might have more power if it was delivered to a blacks-only audience. "I didn't think about racism or reverse racism, I practiced law for 30 years and 75 percent of my partners were white," he explained.
The judge said the majority of people who appear before him accused of crimes such as murder, rape and robbery are black and he wanted to do something about it, one on one."I didn't want them to think I was talking down to them; trying to embarrass them or insult them; be derogatory towards them and I was just saying 'Please get yourself together,'" he said.
Arrington added that he may make a similar speech next week, but this time he'll allow everyone to hear it.
And they should. Because the message also should be to Whites, Latinos, Asians that when Black folks need to be checked, we as a people are completely okay with that. Do you thing judge, we get it!