"These weren't the kind of men you send to jail... You don't make the punishment fit the crime; you make the punishment fit the criminal." I just posted this in the OJ thread and it got me thinking again It's kind of sad that most people never even heard of this quote. I never heard of it despite being Asian American and growing up in this country until Senior year of college when I took an Asian American studies course. I will say we have came a good way since then even in the last thirty years in this country, but I also fear with the economy in a bad state and increased divisiveness if we might again be taking some steps back.
I've seen this before, some judge said this when he let off two people who beat an Asian man to death in Detroit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kaufman_(judge) Personally, I have no freaking idea how a judge can let someone off on probation that just beat someone else to death with a baseball bat. One would like to shy away from pulling the racist card.... but what other explanation is there?
Yep that was the judge in the Vincent Chin case. In my opinion a much larger miscarriage of justice than OJ but then again neither victim or perpetrators were celebrities and this country has a long history of injustices regarding race.
Obviously not race related. The average American doesn't even know "racism" can include anyone other than blacks and whites. This judge was probably just on drugs.
Interesting I did not know that about Judge Kaufman. That said there is a big difference between a crime of concealing a weapon and murder. Vincent Chin was brutally murdered with premeditation and the perpetrators have never shown remorse for it. Maybe Judge Kaufman did have a good heart but this was a case where he needed to look to the law.
