Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 11:53:01 +0000
From: DigitaLpostmodernist <DigitaLpostmodernist-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: So, the nanny's "guilty"?


William S. Lear=A0 wrote:
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...I'm not saying that I like the verdict.=A0 I was saying that the jury
...may not have been so stupid as Godena claims.=A0 They may have felt that
...they had no choice, or they may have felt it likely that the verdict
...would be reduced to manslaughter by the judge.=A0 Thanks to William Weld
...and his gang of criminals associates in Mass., the options available
...to them were few.=A0 I'm not applauding the verdict, I'm just trying to
...deflate Godena's turgid excoriations of the "working class" (who
...somehow found it in their lily white hearts to sympathize with a
...dark-skinned father, Sunil, and his chocolate-skinned baby, contrary to
...Godena's claim that they were "from the right ethnic background").
...
...Bill
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	Whatever the colour of his skin, Sunil and partner are members
	of the 'middle class' whilst the nanny comes from a working class
	background. Her dad works as a joiner.

	Many families in the USA employ foreign child care youngsters
	because they are cheaper than North American ones. So the
	whole situation is akin to other instances where immigrant labour
	is utilized to 'under-cut' home labour.

	More than one commentator over here in the UK have pointed out that
	the nanny's composure and lack of emotional display worked
	against her, but her deference and behaviour fits into working
	class culture.(Let alone the fact that she was probably scared
	out of her wits!)

	Other journalists have drawn attention to the fact that the verdict
	could also be seen as a response to the fact that the legal team
	for the nanny got OJ Simpson off and therefore needed to be
	'punished'.

	Plus one of the lawyers for the prosecution came 'from the wrong side
	of the tracks' having worked his way through college etc.

	His performance in the closing address was pure under-played and
	under-stated drama, Hollywood even, just the like summing up
	scene in the movie 'A Time to Kill', with some of the questions of
	that film being applicable to this case.

	So, given the complex and contradictory details and numerous
	interpretations of the trail, i venture to propose that the verdict
	was in keeping with what you over in the USA would call
	'white trash' politics?

=09
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