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Black federal judges, inspired by racial “solidarity” and “conditioned” in life to sympathize with other blacks, side with African-Americans filing discrimination cases in significantly higher percentages than white judges, according to a first-of-its-kind study.
The California State University, Northridge study of 516 discrimination cases in federal courts over eight years found that black federal judges side with black claimants 32.9 percent of the time. For white judges it was 20.6 percent.
But when the study looked at how black and white judges ruled on discrimination claims made by "non-black claimants," there wasn't any difference.
“The results indicate that African American judges are more likely than white judges to rule in favor of a claimant," said study author Jason Morin in the authoritative American Politics Research. "Findings suggest that African American judges are most likely to rule in favor of claimants and that they are conditioned by the presence of racial cues,” he added
I don't think anyone should be terribly surprised at these findings. I think what's more amazing is that California State University was able to overcome any sort of politically correct opposition it may have encountered to actually study this.
(As an aside, I have sometimes referred to Loyalty To The Race™ right here on this forum to describe the propensity of black American's to defend Barack Obama at every turn, and it seems there is actually some credence to my assertion.)
Flip the coin and the article could headline "White Judges Discriminate against Black Claimants".
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But that's not what the study finds.
I guess it depends on which side of the coin you are looking at. The writer of the very short article looked at the results and drew his own conclusion the way he wanted to read it. This is another fail thread based on the information on your link. By the way you can shop for judges to get a favorable ruling...bet you never heard about that.
I guess it depends on which side of the coin you are looking at. The writer of the very short article looked at the results and drew his own conclusion the way he wanted to read it. This is another fail thread based on the information on your link. By the way you can shop for judges to get a favorable ruling...bet you never heard about that.
If you have a problem with the study, I'd recommend contacting California State University.
I don't think anyone should be terribly surprised at these findings. I think what's more amazing is that California State University was able to overcome any sort of politically correct opposition it may have encountered to actually study this.
(As an aside, I have sometimes referred to Loyalty To The Race™ right here on this forum to describe the propensity of black American's to defend Barack Obama at every turn, and it seems there is actually some credence to my assertion.)
Hmm...
Seeing how the majority of judges are white, that would mean black people are being screwed by the system.
Seeing how the majority of judges are white, that would mean black people are being screwed by the system.
No. That's not what it means necessarily. Unfortunately, without the full study text, its hard to know the detailed findings. But I think you're reaching here based on the abstract of the study.
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