Disco Judges

Hello everyone, and welcome back. Sorry, I have been kind of lazy when it comes to writing for this blog as off late. The week before Thanksgiving was rather stressful, and the week of Thanksgiving had me at home and alternatively bored or playing Fallout 3 in the middle of the night. Good stuff children, good stuff.
So, today I posit a simple question:
How many black judges are there in America?
This question is very much like the question “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?” in that nobody really knows the answer. Ok, some people know how many black judges are in America. But those people own or help write the book Black Judges in America.
So let’s talk about this Time article about black judges in America. Basically, black judges sometimes feel like blacks being accused of crime need black juries to get a fair. Black judges are also worried about how poor people are being treated. They just want to ensure that everyone gets a fair trial. So there are people in the justice department who want to make things better.
No here comes the saddest part. That article up there, if you haven’t noticed, was written in 1971, 37 years ago! Not much has been done since then. Few people have really done anything to ensure this sort of thing comes to pass. In fact, I believe that there are even few black judges (when it comes to percentages) then there was before.
Sad day indeed.
You know what, perhaps the court system in America needs the same affirmative action policies that most of the companies and even universities of this great country are put under. I guess the problem with that is that judges are professionals turned servants of the law, and that means we would need more black lawyers to have more black judges. To do that, we need to increase black people’s opportunities. There’s a lot of ways to do that. Maybe we will get into that a little later.
Coming up, another blog to make for the last 2 weeks. Hurray!