Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison

[shio]

Khuutra said:

shio said:

Khuutra said:

Because the man was black. Huh-doy. More, because statistically, black men are more often wrongly accused by an enormous degree:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Facts_on_PostConviction_DNA_Exonerations.php

Talk whatever you want, those numbers speak for themselves.

It doesn't matter. Unless you have proof that there was prejudice for this man's case, you are simply talking out of your ass.

The most idiotic part is that your link just further supports my argument, because those 158 black men wrongfully convicted are statistically insignificant compared to the hundreds of thousands of black people convicted. Those 158 represent less than 0.05% of black people convicted.

Are we going to cry "racism" everytime an african is convicted? Should we also cry "racism" when a white man is convicted? Or how about a latino? Or an asian?

It's nothing to do with single convictions and everything to do with systematic procedural problems that result in absolutely and disproportionately huge numbers of black men to be convicted, especially wrongfully. Those numbers in the previous post refer to black men whose exonerations have come as a result of the innocence movement. The problem is bigger than that: http://truthandjusticedenied.com/Wrongful_Conviction_Statist.html

You lack the cultural perspective (or statistical knowedge) necessary to participate in a discussion concerning racial factors in wrongful conviction.

Cultural perspective? In what way?

Anyway, the number of people of wrongfully convicted, be they black or any other race, is a small percentage (just like your link tells). Even if 10% of convicted  black people are innocent, it is idiotic to shout "racism" everytime a black man goes to jail, because you'll be wrong at least 90% of the time.

And besides, I'm pretty sure that a huge chunk of innocent people incarcerated is blamed on other, more reasonable factors, like the defense attorneys' inefficiency. I'm not saying that there isn't racism, but you people are blowing it out of proportion.

Maybe there is that much racism is the US, I don't know since I'm portuguese, and the portuguese speaking nations are probably the least racists in the world. Maybe that's why that we don't yell racism everytime an actor or comedian puts blackface on TV(or ever), and the word mulatto stopped having a pejorative sense a long time ago, or that we can actually make caricatures of men of any race without being labelled as racist. Who knows.