Felicity Huffman to spend 14 days in prison and pay a $30G Fine.

[Armyvet23]

To bad uncle Joe wasn't in charge, She's not a violent criminal.

 

[Sean]

And a poor black homeless woman that sent her kid to school in the wrong district got five years.

 

[Armyvet23]

And a poor black homeless woman that sent her kid to school in the wrong district got five years.

Very unfair!

 

[RobDownSouth]

And a poor black homeless woman that sent her kid to school in the wrong district got five years.

I'm sure the Usual Suspects will be along shortly to assure us that there is NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE in very loud voices...maybe even boldface type!

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm sure the Usual Suspects will be along shortly to assure us that there is NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE in very loud voices...maybe even boldface type!

Are you suggesting that white people aren't subject to the exact same law??

Can you cite where in the laws white people are exempt because they are white???

 

[Armyvet23]

I'm sure the Usual Suspects will be along shortly to assure us that there is NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE in very loud voices...maybe even boldface type!

Look, I hate that phrase! Explain the meaning to me, I guess I slept through that class like many liberals slept through civic class!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Look, I hate that phrase! Explain the meaning to me, I guess I slept through that class like many liberals slept through civic class!

There is no class.....Rob just like many leftist (he's no liberal of any kind he's an individual liberty and civil rights loathing anti-American leftist of the highest order) is deliberately redefining the term "privilege" to mean whatever vague shit he wants in connection to racism, discrimination or disparity.

One can only guess he and other "progressive" bigots do so to promote racism and racial divides.

He doesn't mean actual privilege.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Look, I hate that phrase! Explain the meaning to me, I guess I slept through that class like many liberals slept through civic class!

Look at the first post in this thread.
Then look at the second post.
Both offenses are essentially the same.
Mothers cheating the system to make a better life for their children.
The white woman goes to jail for 2 weeks.
The black woman goes to jail for 5 years.

Notice the disparity in their jail sentences?
That's "white privilege" in a nutshell.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Look at the first post in this thread.
Then look at the second post.
Both offenses are essentially the same.
Mothers cheating the system to make a better life for their children.
The white woman goes to jail for 2 weeks.
The black woman goes to jail for 5 years.

Notice the disparity in their jail sentences?
That's "white privilege" in a nutshell.

Disparity =/= privilege Rob.....your attempts to re-define the word privilege in an effort to promote racial division not withstanding.

 

[jaF0]

I'm OIK with no jail since this is a financial crime and no one was physically harmed. But the fine should be MUCH. Probably at least $300K, if not more. They have the means and this was about buying influence to begin with. Make the fine high enough to hurt. If the kid graduated, I'd pull the degree also so no one benefits from the fraud.

But there's no sense occupying a jail cell at taxpayer expense.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm OIK with no jail since this is a financial crime and no one was physically harmed. But the fine should be MUCH. Probably at least $300K, if not more. They have the means and this was about buying influence to begin with. Make the fine high enough to hurt. If the kid graduated, I'd pull the degree also so no one benefits from the fraud.

But there's no sense occupying a jail cell at taxpayer expense.

I actually agree with the jaF0 for once.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Look at the first post in this thread.
Then look at the second post.
Both offenses are essentially the same.
Mothers cheating the system to make a better life for their children.
The white woman goes to jail for 2 weeks.
The black woman goes to jail for 5 years.

Notice the disparity in their jail sentences?
That's "white privilege" in a nutshell.

It probably shouldn't have happened at all, but the black woman ended up doing nine days in jail and some community service.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ther-sentenced-to-jail-for-enrolling-child-in

And Felicity Huffman got a much stiffer sentence, which she probably deserved:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/7592...nced-to-14-days-in-college-admissions-scandal

 

[BizzaBizza]

And a poor black homeless woman that sent her kid to school in the wrong district got five years.

Silly, misleading snowflake.


The Story of Kelley Williams-Bolar

A decade ago, Williams-Bolar was a single, black mother living in public housing.

The jury in Edward Williams’s trial failed to reach a verdict; Williams-Bolar was convicted of some charges and handed two concurrent five-year sentences, suspended down to 10 days. The judge presiding over her case argued that “others who think they might defraud the school system perhaps will think twice.”


And the story of Tonya McDowell, your homeless woman.

Her story isn't as fucked up as it appears. Facts Article Here.

McDowell was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny in April 2011 after she allegedly falsified a residency affidavit and enrolled her young son at a Connecticut school.

But larceny wasn’t the only charge McDowell faced. In 2011, she was arrested again, this time on suspicion of attempting to sell drugs to and offering an undercover police officer a prostitute.

McDowell was sentenced to five years in prison and five years probation after being convicted of first-degree larceny in the school case as part of a plea deal struck with prosecutors. Had she not taken the deal, McDowell could have faced decades in prison. At the time of her sentencing her attorney, David Crosland, expressed happiness with the resolution of the case.


So, what exactly was unfair or privileged? (This question is for anyone who thought that.)

 

[suurfer]

What parent wouldn't do the same for their child?
I feel for her.

1-2 weeks in jail at max. seem fair enough, and maybe a bigger fine too, given that she can afford it.

As for the kid having done 1-2 years without merit...
Ask her to sit her SAT again, and if she passes to do the two years all over again.
She's kind of screwed because of the publicity.

 

[suurfer]

I can only imagine how much Bush Sr. paid for Jr.'s degree.

That's how Americans got a pres. who made 9/11 and all the wars and loss of billions possible.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Disparity =/= privilege Rob.....your attempts to re-define the word privilege in an effort to promote racial division not withstanding.

Disparity is THE core component of privilege.​

 

[Comshaw]

Look at the first post in this thread.
Then look at the second post.
Both offenses are essentially the same.
Mothers cheating the system to make a better life for their children.
The white woman goes to jail for 2 weeks.
The black woman goes to jail for 5 years.

Notice the disparity in their jail sentences?
That's "white privilege" in a nutshell.

Bullshit. The two have nothing to do with "white privilege" and everything to do with monetary privilege. Those who are on the upper end of the money scale get treated differently then those close to the bottom. The only color that matters up there is green. If it truly was a white privilege thing Jesse Smollett would have his ass in jail at this very moment.


Comshaw

 

[silver gurl]

!4 days in jail? Stupid punishment. I would rather see her pay more dollars and contribute to the communities.

 

[Debbie]

I like what her daughter supposedly said:

"She(Felicity Huffman) said that when she was later arrested and had to explain to her daughter what she had done, “She said to me, ‘I don’t know who you are anymore, Mom.’”



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/us/felicity-huffman-sentencing.html

You are not doing your kid any favours doing this sort of thing. Most cheats don't prosper and it isn't the sort of life lesson you want to teach your child.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Bullshit. The two have nothing to do with "white privilege" and everything to do with monetary privilege. Those who are on the upper end of the money scale get treated differently then those close to the bottom. The only color that matters up there is green. If it truly was a white privilege thing Jesse Smollett would have his ass in jail at this very moment.


Comshaw

And, in fact, the woman who benefitted from "White Privilege" served five more days in jail than the black woman, served or has to serve three times as much community service and was hit with a $30,000 fine.

ETA: I can't help thinking that taking the SAT for somebody else sounds like easy money. Because of my age, I could't get away with it now, but maybe I could have done so about sixty years ago.

 

[suurfer]

I like what her daughter supposedly said:

"She(Felicity Huffman) said that when she was later arrested and had to explain to her daughter what she had done, “She said to me, ‘I don’t know who you are anymore, Mom.’”

I'm interpreting it differently:
She said it to protect her daughter, to show that she wasn't aware of the scheme.
A devoted mum to the end, taking the entire blame.

I suspect her daughter would have been upset: "Why did you put yourself on the line like that? And you ended up messing up my life too."

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm interpreting it differently:
She said it to protect her daughter, to show that she wasn't aware of the scheme.
A devoted mum to the end, taking the entire blame.

I suspect her daughter would have been upset: "Why did you put yourself on the line like that? And you ended up messing up my life too."

How could the daughter not have been aware? She knew she was scheduled to test on a certain date, but she also knew she did't, and that she got a result anyhow.

 

[suurfer]

Bullshit. The two have nothing to do with "white privilege" and everything to do with monetary privilege. Those who are on the upper end of the money scale get treated differently then those close to the bottom. The only color that matters up there is green.
If it truly was a white privilege thing Jesse Smollett would have his ass in jail at this very moment.

And, in fact, the woman who benefitted from "White Privilege" served five more days in jail than the black woman, served or has to serve three times as much community service and was hit with a $30,000 fine.

Indeed, it has more to do with money privilege, than with 'skin' privilege.
At least when it comes the lawyers they can afford.

But to me it looked like both Tonya McDowell (black, homeless) and Felicity Hauffman (white, rich)were treated without bias, by the law.

And they're both mothers, and that's what all mothers do: they sacrifice both themselves and their morals for their kids. I bet that's why McDowell sold drugs too.

Jussie Smollet on the other hand was purely self-centered.
Also I guess that's where the "I'm highly connected" privilege came in place.
I read that he had support from pretty high up.

 

[SpeareChucker]

She'll turn it into an audition about a woman wrong sent to prison.


Of course, it will be a Lifetime Channel movie...

 

[SpeareChucker]

!4 days in jail? Stupid punishment. I would rather see her pay more dollars and contribute to the communities.

The money will go to the government which means it will not be used in any meaningful way...