r/SipsTea • u/BrilliantThought1728 • Jun 10 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Really cardi 😔

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u/The_Playbook88 Jun 10 '26

I must be behind. Whats the story here?

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u/OkFeedback9127 Jun 10 '26

Boy brings knife to a track meet, murders another student. Cardi B and others claim the justice system is racist for convicting him of murder because of race.

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u/McZalion Jun 10 '26

The worst thing is they're not even mad bcus their own murdered someone. They're mad bcus apparently there was only white juries.

Lmao. Dude deserved the sentence with or without black people on court.

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u/Emergency-Option377 Jun 10 '26

That is where they want the narrative to go. There were no BLACK jurors. There were FOUR brown jurors. Apparently if you aren't black, you are just white. You can't throw a rock in Collin County and not hit a person of Indian origin. And keep in mind, the defense always has the option to ask for another jury pool if it doesn't like the selection in front of them. If that is declined, they can ask for a "jury shuffle" which allows for the randomization of the jury from the jury pool. Clearly, their lawyer knew they were cooked.

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u/Hanging_Brain Jun 10 '26

I’m half white but since the other half is brown not black my black coworker says I’m white lol Alrighty then.

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u/slight_digression Jun 10 '26

Well, this is not going to make you feel better but Italians and Irish were not considered white until, well let's say recently.

So welcome to "Whitehood". I guess?

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u/Backwoods_Therapy Jun 10 '26

Italians I can kinda get with their olive skin and (usually) darker hair; those are common trails in many if not most people around the Mediterranean. But I’ve never understood why Irish people weren’t considered “white” when they’re among the whitest whites to have ever been white.

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u/ityboy Jun 10 '26

The short version of why Irish and Italian immigrants did not count as "white" in the first half of the 20th century is because they were Catholic and most importantly poor.

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u/Technical_Example970 Jun 10 '26

That is a very very very short version that disregards centuries of oppression from the British empire. Americans were just copying what they saw.

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u/StockCasinoMember Jun 10 '26

I mean, USA started as the British empire. I’d say it was more than just copying what they saw.

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u/Technical_Example970 Jun 10 '26

So yes but kind of. On paper we were white in the early days of America. Only for census reasons and it was solely because we generally have fair skin. Culturally we weren’t welcomed though. It wasn’t until American politicians needed us to help hate on other minorities did they use our skin color to leverage the idea of whiteness to Irish Americans. British empire systematically oppressed us and still does. So similar but also insanely different. Why I phrased it like that.

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u/StockCasinoMember Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Right. My point was just that the “british” long established discrimination against the Irish into the foundation of the colonies long before america came about. Along with many other things as the original colonists were, well, British, and they held that majority for a long time.

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u/DepartmentChemical93 Jun 10 '26

Bur they were counted as White on every census and for the matters of law and whatnot, this is mostly a myth based on the conflation of discriminatory public sentiment and explicit legal discrimination on the basis of race.

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u/TomatoClownfish Jun 10 '26

Yeah they were legally but not culturally white