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...School forum. Listening to panelists Paul Cassell, Alan Dershowitz, and Wendy Kaminer, one might have thought that the discussion was a vital one, that capital punishment was still a topic of active political discourse. In response to Dershowitz's claims that the application of the death penalty was systematically racist, Cassell quoted the latest statistics; Kaminer reassuringly asserted that the issues at hand were "empirical," not "political" questions. The terms of the debate, the panelists suggested, were factual, academic: they should be approached by study and analysis and acted on by what Cassell called "informed public opinion...
...Maintain a patriarchal, racist, exclusionary society...
...They are inherently racist...
Many people who know Fuhrman, including African-American friends, a black former partner and black crime victims he has helped, insist he is not, and never was, a racist. Fuhrman's second wife, schoolteacher Janet Hackett, told Time last week, "There's no way I would have married someone with that agenda. I'm very sensitive to that issue. I teach kids of all ethnic groups. I don't even like [racist] jokes." Instead, claims Hackett, who is backed up by several other people close to Fuhrman, the violence he saw on the streets nearly made him snap. "Nobody understands...
...Simpson murder trial provided armchair lawyers with a week of high courtroom drama as Detective Mark Fuhrman coolly parried defense attorney F. Lee Bailey's taunting cross-examination. Fuhrman repeatedly denied having made racist statements; he also denied suggestions that he planted a bloody glove on Simpson's estate to frame the football hero. The high stakes prompted Bailey and prosecutor Marcia Clark to trade playground-ready insults, leading Judge Lance Ito to ask for an apology from each attorney and to order them not to "engage in gratuitous personal attacks upon each other." At week's end yet another...