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...This dark class is discriminated against because it represents the poor part of America. The poor isn’t a group that we are too fond of in our society. The poor steal. They kill. They do drugs. They drop out of school. They end up in prison...
...This is ridiculous. There is no single type of black person in America, and it is crippling for us to label the black experience as an impoverished experience. Although black people may disproportionately occupy prison space and reside in poor communities, it is simply immoral and inexcusable to associate an entire race with the negative stereotypes of a single class. There are many black professionals, community leaders, and role models that provide alternative images to this negative view of black people...
...East Timor's government was determined not to leave Reinado alone. Since he escaped from Dili's prison last August, the former military police commander-jailed over a rebel attack last May that left five East Timorese soldiers dead-had been flitting from one jungle hideout to another, giving interviews to journalists in which he vented his hatred for the "communist" government, and negotiating with officials and Australian peacekeeping troops over his terms for facing justice. Then, last week, he and his men visited a police post on the border with Indonesia and left with 20 automatic rifles, along with...
...Libby's four-count conviction guarantees that Cheney's White House role will remain in the news for most of the year. At the moment, Libby faces 18 months to three years in prison, though Judge Reggie Walton has discretion over the sentence he will hand down on June 5. In Libby's favor is the Columbia Law School grad's otherwise clean criminal record. Meanwhile, Libby's lawyers will try to argue for a new trial - something few observers expect Walton will permit - and then will ask the judge to allow Libby to postpone his jail sentence until...
...nonetheless believe that the Most Rev. Archbishop Peter Akinola has some explaining to do. The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, one of the most powerful churchmen in Africa, needs to clarify his stance on a Nigerian anti-homosexuality bill he initially supported, which assigns a five-year prison term not only for practicing gays, but also for those who support them. Akinola either needs to publicly renounce, in strong terms, his early support of the bill's punitive clauses and to amplify the rather tepid concern he later expressed about them, or else he needs to explain...