Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

[britisha]

pan diss?


Is 'google' racist or just ignorant?


Mi a chry fi google Judge Bruce Wright...mi cyaan find nutt'n...but as soon as mi google "Turn-em-loose-Bruce" mi find whole heap a sinting. Wha mek?

[britisha]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

Lass week mi a chry fi google di African professor whey Blu staawt him chred offah...not much of significance.

[tsophra]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

no man me juss get plenty of hits on him..all Jet magazine an NPR

[britisha]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">no man me juss get plenty of hits on him..all Jet magazine an NPR </div></div>

Look like mi typo di man's name...thenks Jaded...


britisha

[britisha]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

And of course his self selected nickname in that battle was: Yup, Civil Wright.


Mi found dis inneresting in terms of &quot;modern days news&quot;...*aye sah* Nevah got the respect that he desrved, because ...you guess it !!


In Killing the Portfolios and Dreams of Investors, Bernard Madoff Resurrects Bruce McMarion Wright

Wright_bruceiiTBernard Madoff really made off.
Although he appeared to be a great flight risk -- having bilked by his own admission $50 billion from victims of his Ponzi scheme, and having (likely) stashed millions away in safe accounts for rainy days to come -- Madoff was released on $10 million bail.

Yes, there he was, sauntering from his $7 million apartment in the Naked City and trekking to his even posher digs on the Island so Long.

Laughing all the way, Madoff was (cf. the photos of him leaving the courthouse), jolly as the white-bearded man in the bright red outfit, whose activities were by legend more of the giving than the taking variety.

And what would the Honorable Judge Bruce Wright be thinking, rest his soul, if he were still among us?

Surely he would be directing our thoughts to the legions of far from wealthy but also, like Madoff, presumed innocent arrestees awaiting trials in New York.

Judge Wright once called Rikers Island -- the city's waiting place for those who cannot afford bail -- a veritable zoo for outcast Blacks and Latinos.

Wright was hated for what he said and believed. &quot;Turn 'em Loose Bruce&quot; the tabloids used to call him, because of his contention that bail should not be a means of incarcerating the poor before they are found guilty, or (for that matter) freeing the rich before they are declared innocent.

Wright paid a price for his faithfulness to his reading of the law. Back in those days of old -- wait a minute, it was just two decades ago! -- he received death threats. He was harassed by police officers. He once was delivered a package of feces.

Cool, if tight-faced, when on the bench, he once had to be carried out of the courtroom after an ulcer attack.

There were not many like him, Judge Wright. He was a published poet, a garrulous story-teller, a walker of the streets of the city. And he loved to tell painful truths with a laugh.

He often spoke of how, when he was first approached (by then Mayor John Lindsay) about becoming a judge, he told the dear mayor that judgeships were, by his understanding, very expensive and he didn't think he could afford to by one. He was appointed to the bench, nonetheless.<span style="font-weight: bold">

Later in life, when a less friendly mayor, Ed Koch, refused to reappoint Wright to the Criminal Court, Wright ran for an elective Civil Court position, and he won by a margin that astounded politicos of that day (some 30 years ago).</span>

Harlem, Judge Wright's base, had never seen a campaign so populist, so full of focused fury.

And of course his self selected nickname in that battle was: Yup, Civil Wright.

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Ahh yes, Ed Koch, who cuddah figgit 'im? Juss whoo?

[Emperah]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lass week mi a chry fi google di African professor whey Blu staawt him chred offah...not much of significance. </div></div>

look like just racist gentz yuh

[Emperah]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

cut em loose bruce

[blugiant]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">pan diss?


Is 'google' racist or just ignorant?


Mi a chry fi google Judge Bruce Wright...mi cyaan find nutt'n...but as soon as mi google &quot;Turn-em-loose-Bruce&quot; mi find whole heap a sinting. Wha mek? </div></div>

mii rate judge bruce wright as wan strang blakk man. mii find itt funnee dat de racist mzungu ny post racistlee label de blakk judge as tur-em-loose bruce ann blakk peeps as use dat term ann doan see de racism widd itt

bruce wright book black robes white justice a must read ting

[britisha]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lass week mi a chry fi google di African professor whey Blu staawt him chred offah...not much of significance. </div></div>

look like just racist gentz yuh </div></div>

Ahhh Dahjah...it wouldn't surprise mi fi si mis-information about our people. Just check dah newspapers si how much times dem haffie a mek correction, when they are called out on their [deliberate] &quot;errors.&quot;

[britisha]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> cut em loose bruce </div></div>



By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: March 26, 2005




Bruce McM. Wright, a retired black judge in Manhattan who denounced what he called racism in the criminal justice system and created a furor in the 1970's by setting low bail for many poor and minority suspects, died in his sleep on Thursday at his home in Old Saybrook, Conn. He was 86.

His death was announced by his wife, Elizabeth Davidson-Wright. Justice Wright, who retired at the end of 1994 from State Supreme Court, suffered a heart attack in March 2000.

Justice Wright spent 25 years on the bench in both criminal and civil cases, gaining a reputation as a scholarly and provocative jurist who sprinkled his opinions with literary quotations.

But it was in Criminal Court early in his judicial career that he found himself at the center of a storm over his out-of-court remarks and bail policies, which had the effect of releasing many suspects, some of them charged with vicious attacks on police officers.

&quot;Turn 'Em Loose Bruce&quot; was the sobriquet supplied by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which called him &quot;the best friend criminals ever had.&quot; At various times, Mayor John V. Lindsay, who appointed him to the bench in 1970, as well as Mayors Abraham D. Beame and Edward I. Koch and many other politicians, joined the chorus of denunciations.

But civil libertarians, Legal Aid lawyers and others defended Judge Wright's use of bail as appropriate in the context of its statutory and traditional purpose: to assure the presence at trial of a defendant, who is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

In setting bail, judges typically weigh a defendant's character, employment, finances and community roots. Also considered are any criminal record, possible danger to the community, the seriousness of the charges and the probable sentence that a conviction would carry, which, if severe enough, might raise the possibility of flight to avoid prosecution.

While no records were kept on the bail practices of judges, Judge Wright's were not very different from those of his colleagues, lawyers familiar with the courts at the time said, but his decisions were monitored more closely by the police and reporters.

Judge Wright insisted that bail should not be used punitively, to detain people for the sake of crime prevention or to coerce guilty pleas. He said his aim was to uphold the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which says &quot;excessive bail shall not be required.&quot; For some poor people, he contended, $50 could be excessive.

Judge Wright also drew angry responses with out-of-court speeches asserting that white judges often did not treat black defendants fairly and that the acquittal of white officers by white juries had given the police &quot;a license to hunt down blacks and kill them with impunity.&quot;

While opponents called those remarks intemperate for a judge, many black and Hispanic New Yorkers regarded him as a compassionate counterweight to an overwhelmingly white justice system. In the mid-1970's, only 2 to 3 percent of America's judges were black. The City Bar Association, meanwhile, called his performance on the bench &quot;decidedly better than average.&quot;

Judge Wright's perceptions were shaped by his own experiences with racism. He had been a distinguished student, but was turned away from Princeton; he had been a decorated soldier in World War II, but had to serve in segregated units; he had worked for a major New York law firm, but said he was told that he could not hope to become a partner.

A tall, trim man with angular features and an athlete's confident bearing, he was an amateur painter, an avid reader and the author of three published volumes of poetry. He also wrote &quot;Black Robes, White Justice&quot; (Lyle Stuart, 1987), about race and the judiciary.

Bruce McMarion Wright was born on Dec. 19, 1918, in Princeton, N.J. His father was a baker.<span style="font-weight: bold"> He was an excellent student and applied to Princeton, but was dissuaded by an admissions official, who wrote him saying that the school did not discriminate but had &quot;no colored students&quot; and advised him that &quot;a member of your race might feel very much alone.&quot;

Sixty-five years later, the Princeton graduating class of 2001 made Judge Wright an honorary member.</span>
__________________
The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.


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Mi juss feel fi post dis fram Shakur's site you linked..

[britisha]

Re: Ah whey Blu deh fi cum bun fyah

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
mii rate judge bruce wright as wan strang blakk man.<span style="font-weight: bold"> mii find itt funnee dat de racist mzungu ny post racistlee label de blakk judge as tur-em-loose bruce </span>ann blakk peeps as use dat term ann doan see de racism widd itt

bruce wright book black robes white justice a must read ting </div></div>

Ah dat mi a seh, hiff all black people did boycott dat rag, it would've bin hout a circulation years ago.

Judge Wright counter punched doah wid &quot;Civil Wright&quot; doah.

thanks for recommending that book.


edited to say, look at the page 6 &quot;satire&quot; whey dem shoot the monkey an related it to Obama..Mi think they just apologised for that disgusting cartoon.