yeah so, judge cordell, aish makes a great point. if this was slightly different and this was a man of colo convicted of raping a whit women, we might have gotten an entirely different sentence. here is a clip from 2015 o then president barack obam talking about the ways in whic the criminal justice systems penalties are more likely to b visited on black and brown men the bottom line is that int many places, white boys an black men, latino boys and latino man, experience being treated differently under th law. it is not as fair as it should be mass incarceration makes our country worse off. and we need to do somethin about it any system that allows us to turn a blind eye t hopelessness and despair, that is not a justice system, it is an injustice system. george, this is a case no only made clear that there may actually be two very different
-leaning justices and it ruled that the congressional lines drawn by state republicans wasn t illegal partisa gerrymandering but during the midterms, the court shifted to the right and when those justices were seated, suddenly there wasn an opening and an extremely rare move the north carolina supreme court announced that it would re-hea the case surprise, and if the justice ruled differently this time, new congressional map the stea of abuse would - possibly with as many as leaning districts and as few a three democratic-leaning lines ultimately, this case is about who gets to make redistricting decisions and it could hav nationwide consequences becaus this case is als simultaneously before the u.s. supreme court. and with the north carolin justices do will likely affect how the nation s high cour handles the matter the perfect person to discus this and more, john veasey at, oh the new president of th
criminal offices of aids inequality so if criminal la exacerbates inequality, what d we do in a situation lik barack turner scenario, wher we have an unspeakable crime and yet we have this judge who wants to be lenient, but the sentence feels like it hits to little yeah. i think what we hope the fil does, it is a call to step bac from our most car stroll impulses and see how we ca envision a form of justice tha hold people accountable, hol people who cause har accountable, and also seek justice for survivors. an all too often in this country, i think, we conflat punishment with justice. that is, harsh punishments hav just become synonymous wit justice. and this is why we have crisis of mass incarceration and also to, the survivor of sexual assault, what is justice for them
bounds an illegitimate respons it is tricky but given what the professor i am curious your reaction t all of the above then maybe the filmmakers will respond as well. i think i m a littl confused around the question but i, mean, and i want to say that i am a feminist, established that i am survivor, i think that, i gues for me, i feel like when w have this conversation, ofte what gets lost is survivors an our needs. as a filmmaker and writer wh has documented so much of this specifically to black survivors, i think it is really the question of what does justic look like, what does healing i accountability look like so i think it is important, am not in favor of the recal at all i think it is very dangerous but, i think that what we need to do is begin to think abou what is healing an accountability and justice loo like
considered what would have been justice for barack turner? well, i think it is startin with asking the person who had the harm from brock turner what would havebeen justice? mental health support? would it have been, you know some kind of apology and admittance of what he did? you know, and in addition to potentially prison time. but the way that our system is set up, it doesn t take into consideration the, even for th victims, the survivors, what i necessary for healing them would it have been more tha six months i mean, in some ways that i a question that, you know, i certainly can t answer i don t know what th appropriate time is for this particular offense but i think we need to chang what the conversation is about, again,, what is healing in what is justice there are a lot o individuals in the legal syste in california, i was i