I Was a Big "Kramer" Fan...

I would prefer Anal Queens Volumes 1-7.

It is possible to be very funny and an outstanding member of society as well.
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Jonathan Miller was a member of the British comedy group 'Beyond the Fringe'. Their humour was intellectual and witty, only the Brits can do it properly without swearing.
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He went on to become the most impressive creative mind I can think of. Besides all that he was a physician as well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2045941.stm

Why it it OK for black people to call us caucasians Honky's or Cracker's and everyone laughs? I don't find that funny!

Victor, I don't find it funny at all, but understandable. If my people would have been enslaved, beaten, lynched and insulted for centuries, I would have a chip on my shoulder too.

They are not treated like that now!

Why do you assume that is the case?

Victor, let's say you spend 25 years in jail, it was a mistake and you finally are a free man again. Wouldn't you have a chip on your shoulder?

White people have been sent to prison wrongly too, not just blacks.

For instance, that guy from the eastern shore that spent 20 years in prison and was on death row for killing Dawn Hamilton, and then was found innocent because of DNA.
He doesn't seem to have a chip on his shoulder inspite of all that.

That would be Kirk Bloodsworth!

DNA and the Death Penalty: The True Story of Kirk Bloodsworth
Release date: November 14, 2006 |

Charged in 1984 with raping and murdering a young girl, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. After spending nine years proclaiming his innocence, Bloodsworth was exonerated by conclusive DNA evidence?-marking the first U.S. capital conviction to be overturned by DNA testing.

Join Bloodsworth and two other local civil rights activists at a panel discussion titled "DNA and the Death Penalty: The True Story of Kirk Bloodsworth" at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14 in the Heubeck Multipurpose Room. This event is free and open to the public.

Bloodsworth was convicted of sexual assault, rape, and first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to death in Maryland in 1985. In 1993, DNA evidence was matched with information from state and federal databases, and the real offender finally was charged with the rape and murder of young Dawn Hamilton.
A book chronicling his 20-year journey, Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA, was released by Tim Junkin in 2004.

Today, Bloodsworth is a program officer for The Justice Project's Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform and the Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund, and he has been an ardent supporter of the Innocence Protection Act (IPA). The IPA will establish the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program, which will help states defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.

Bloodsworth will be joined at the panel discussion by Jane Henderson, the executive director of Maryland Citizens Against State Executions (MD-CASE) and a national expert on delaying death sentences, and Bonnita Spikes, a lifelong union and civil rights activist and an Open Society Institute-Baltimore fellow who is working with MD-CASE.

"DNA and the Death Penalty: The True Story of Kirk Bloodsworth" is co-sponsored by the Sociology and Anthropology Department, the Peace Studies Program, and the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center.

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