Texas Justice: Shaquanda Cotton’s Conviction Stands
In March of this year, Chicago Tribune journalist, Howard Witt, reported the case of a 14 year-old Black girl who had been convicted for up to seven years for shoving an employee at her Paris, Texas public school. Details of disparate disciplinary practices and decisions by the Texas judicial system mobilized bloggers to bring attention to the case of Shaquanda Cotton and demand her release. There were protest marches and protests in cyberspace. Talk shows featured the situation and Shaquanda was eventually released.
Last week, the 6th Court of Appeals in Texarkana upheld Shaquanda's conviction and didn't address the racial disparity in treatment of students and sentencing. Understandably disappointed, hopefully Shaquanda and her mother will continue to fight this.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-cotton_frijul06,1,4706376.story?track=rss
1 comment:
The blantant racism we still face in this conuntry, as demonstrated by this case and the Jena Six case should be a wake up call to all black folk that the fight is long from over; despite the contentions of okie doke people otherwise.
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