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A wonderful quote. I can't help but see the similarity between this quote and the words of a 90 year old BLM protester that I met in Seattle recently: "No, I d
by darksaints 6y ago
A wonderful quote.
I can't help but see the similarity between this quote and the words of a 90 year old BLM protester that I met in Seattle recently: "No, I don't really care about the looters. Let them take what they want. Because it doesn't matter. Nothing matters anymore. Because guilty or innocent, if they're black, they're gonna end up in prison at some point before they die. Just like I did. For 24 years."
- rimliu 6y agoSo he was innocent and spent 24 years in prison? Or was he just trying to downplay his own responsibility?
- darksaints 6y agoHe claimed he was innocent, and I think I believe him. My therapist does some work in the state prison system, and he told me once that most prisoners go through the full 5 stages of grief usually within a couple of months. And by the end of those stages of grief, it is no longer painful for them to accept and openly admit that they committed a crime. He can only recall two long term prisoners that he worked with that refused to admit guilt after a year in prison...one of them has already been fully exonerated (not commuted, but actually cleared of all guilt), and the other was recently granted a retrial. Anecdotal, sure, but I find it believable.