White Boys, Food Stamps, and Eliot Spitzer

White Boys, Food Stamps, and Eliot Spitzer

Some news stories are infuriating, some are validating, some are positively and pathetically amusing. One of each classification follows:

White Boys: They may not be able to jump but at least one black judge in Pennsylvania thinks they get favored treatment.

It should be ironic given President Obama’s post-racial America that Allegheny County Judge Joseph Williams still thinks that way but it’s not ironic at all since Obama’s post-racial America is a sorry joke.

Williams rejected a plea deal of 3 months probation for 24 year old Jeffery McGowan in a case involving a fight with a traffic cop saying that it was “a ridiculous plea that only goes to white boy,” adding that a black defendant in that situation would not have been treated as leniently: http://tiny.cc/o4g9j

The first problem I have with Williams’ statement is that he referred to a 24 year old man as a “white boy.” Unless I’m seriously mistaken, had a white judge called a black defendant, whether he were a 24 or 16 “black boy,” would have been censured, if not fired. Why wasn’t Williams?

The second problem I have with him is that Judge Williams had the audacity to not merely imply but to voice a definitive opinion that his or any court treats blacks and whites differently. If he has any substantive proof of the existence of such blatant racism, he should make that proof known–or keep his mouth shut on the issue.

Such is the state of Obama’s race-neutrality in 2010 America,

Food Stamps: The ancient Romans had a different name for welfare and for buying votes. They called it “panem et circensis,” bread and circuses, bread and games. Among other things, America calls it food stamps. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2138)