Bryan Stevenson - Racism and the Death Penalty

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1030

Bryan Stevenson, NYU Professor of Clinical Law and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the seemingly inherent racial bias to the administration of capital punishment in the United States.

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Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, professor of clinical law at New York University and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, speaks on political rights under the U.S. Constitution. This is the final lecture of the four-part series.

This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, Visiting Professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country's leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America's outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. -- The New School

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of EJI and Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, has won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. Since graduating from Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, he has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.

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[Dangerdoom68]

@Herculieas

If I were a individual of West sub-Saharan Afro-African "black" slave kin ancestry, and knew of this bias, I would rather migrate back to sub-Sahara Africa and embrace a Afro-tribes there, doesn't matter which one because they're all "black" anyways, than to live in Euro-dominant land in which the Indigenous "Native American" Indian's lands are squatted by foreign invaders and where a Afro-African "blacks" are forced to assimilate into the Euro-culture, etc.

[Herculieas]

@fasfsdfasd No, I don't neglect that, sir. You are wrong.

[Herculieas]

@fasfsdfasd My god, you dipshit.

10 black men rape 10 white women = 10 executions

10 black men rape 10 black women = 5 executions

5 white men rape 10 white women = 1 executions

5 white men rape 10 black women = 0 executions.

In the scenario above, there were twice as many black men as there were white. They all committed the same crime. However, the color of their skin and who they raped was key in how many were executed. That's what the data shows, and that's what Stevenson is conveying.

[Herculieas]

This is my nigga.

[easports3015]

@fasfsdfasd u mean "commit"? is it possible? sure. is it likely? probably not.

[PTC483]

all too believable. They run the stats every way from backwards trying to make the disparity cause by something else, and can't. Race is IT. So, at 4.30, they say "ok but if we struck it, we'd have to go after the same thing w/everthing from drug crimes & violence on down"... making the supreme court of the United States of America "AFRAID OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE."

Stevenson's imperturbable sweet calmness about it all...

[IrvineMF]

@sydbaron it's not about sheer numbers of people who are given the death penalty, it's about probability. Baldus' study held other factors constant, and found that when you drop everything BUT race of the victim and the defendant, a white life is valued more than a black life.

If men over 30 were 11 times more likely to be sentenced to prison than men under 30, for the SAME CRIME, this would also be a travesty.

[momothekid47]

why havent more people seen this vid?

[Darkside2205]

@KinglyNumbaOne agreed

[SydBaron]

Is it so outrageous to believe young black men especially may be more prone to violence or even murder than young white men? If the death penalty were reserved for serial killers convicted on overwhelming evidence, there would be no more argument about this manufactured controversy.