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To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
Here is an excerpt from “George Zimmerman: Not Guilty, but Hardly Innocent,” July 15, 2013, which I wrote after a Florida jury acquitted him of killing Trayvon Martin. ____________________ While most Blacks (being led by the NAACP no less) are now calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file criminal civil rights charges against Zimmerman,… Read more.
I took a lot of intra-racial flak for not eulogizing Michael in my original commentary as an innocent victim of yet another racist police shooting. The (my-race-right-or-wrong) guardians of Black pride took exception to my pointing out that this kid would not have been shot if he had cooperated with the arresting officer; that is,… Read more.
It was poignant enough when President Obama declared last year that the racially profiled and murdered Trayvon Martin could have been his son. But this poignancy increased exponentially when he declared the following yesterday – during a remarkably personal and heartfelt reflection on the Zimmerman verdict and the legacy of racism that gave rise to… Read more.
The jury … will either find him guilty as sin, or its six ‘angry’ women will be hung. There’s simply no reasonable justification, even for this ‘all-White’ jury, to let this trigger-happy wannabe cop walk scot-free. (“Zimmerman Trial a Sensation Only Because Media Made It So,” The iPINIONS Journal, July 13, 2013) I clearly thought… Read more.
Over 9,000 people are murdered in the United States every year. Therefore, it takes extraordinary circumstances – like a mother (Casey Anthony) killing her child – for any of them to become a cause celebre. The circumstances surrounding the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin are extraordinary to say the least. (One can be forgiven for thinking… Read more.
