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Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.


This video clearly demonstrates how racist America is as a country and how far we have to go to become a country that is civilized and actually values equal justice. We must not rest until this goal is achieved. I do not want my great grandchildren to live in a country like we have today. I wish for them to live in a country where differences of race and culture are not ignored but valued as a part of what makes America great.

Monday, December 05, 2022

Alito Teases Kagan About Dating Sites and Black Children in K.K.K. Outfits

Alito Teases Kagan About Dating Sites and Black Children in K.K.K. Outfits

“Monday’s Supreme Court arguments involved many hypothetical scenarios. A few riffs provoked snickers in the generally serious chamber.

Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., left, and Elena Kagan, right, on Capitol Hill in 2019.
Justices Samuel Alito, left, and Elena Kagan on Capitol Hill in 2019.Susan Walsh/Associated Press

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. drew laughter on Monday as the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a website designer has a First Amendment right to refuse to sell wedding websites to same-sex couples, joking with Justice Elena Kagan about hypothetical analogies involving dating websites and a Black mall Santa Claus.

The slightly awkward moment came as Justice Alito asked Eric R. Olson, Colorado’s solicitor general, to consider an example involving JDate.com, an online service aimed at matching Jewish singles.

“An unmarried Jewish person asks a Jewish photographer to take a photograph for his JDate dating profile — it’s a dating service, I gather, for Jewish people —” Justice Alito began.

“It is!” jumped in Justice Kagan, who is Jewish.

Laughter filled the room as Justice Alito continued: “All right, maybe Justice Kagan will also be familiar with the next website I’m going to mention. So next, a Jewish person asks a Jewish photographer to take a photograph for his AshleyMadison.com dating profile —”

AshleyMadison.com is a dating website marketed at would-be adulterers. Laugher swelled again, and Justice Alito cut himself off, saying: “I’m not suggesting that. I mean, she knows a lot of things. I’m not suggesting…” He trailed off, before resuming his question to Mr. Olson: “OK, does he have to do it?”

The answer depends on what services that photographer offers, Mr. Olson replied. Justice Alito then returned to an earlier hypothetical shared by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who described a shopping mall Santa Claus who objected to having his picture taken with Black children.

“So if there’s a Black Santa at the other end of the mall,” Justice Alito said, “and he doesn’t want to have his picture taken with a child who’s dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, the Black Santa has to do that?”

No, Mr. Olson said, because unlike race or sexual orientation, wearing Ku Klux Klan outfits is not a protected characteristic under so-called public accommodations laws. Justice Kagan then added that presumably the answer would be the same whether the child wearing a K.K.K. outfit was white or Black. Justice Alito interjected, provoking more tittering:

“Yeah, you do see a lot of Black children with Ku Klux Klan outfits all the — all the time. Supposed that, I mean, ah …” he said, chuckling and trailing off.

After a pause, Justice Kagan said: “Can I, can I — yeah? Is that all right?”

“Sure,” Justice Alito said. Justice Kagan then started in on her own series of hypotheticals.“

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