I liked this comment about the Zimmerman trial from Legal Insurrection.
There is an irony in this travesty. The very prosecutors that withheld evidence, lied to the court, coached witnesses and prosecuted without evidence, also prosecute a number of young black men, some not much older than Martin. And in cheering them on, the black community is condoning this behavior, this same lack of “justice”, that is undoubtedly being applied to their own. And they are too blind to see it.
If this is happening in a high profile trial, it is undoubtedly occurring in the prosecutions of many young black men who don’t have the resources, the quality of counsel, nor the publicity that Zimmerman has. But they cheer the prosecution on, because in this case revenge is more important than justice. If it is happening to Zimmerman, it is happening many times over to themselves.
Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.
This video may add something to the above. About 2 1/2 minutes.
Let me add that for decades the Black community cheered on the drug war which was mainly directed against the Black community. That is changing. This book is an effort to move that change along: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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3 responses to “The Irony In The Travesty”
It is ironic but he’s also talking around the bigger point of cases like this. For many blacks it seems (to me at least) to be about payback, so it doesn’t matter if it’s done to them as long as it’s done to whitey too. They’ve skipped over the part about how it shouldn’t happen to anyone and that the scales of justice won’t balance because x amount of whites get the shaft too.
The Zimmerman trial, like other high profile media driven cases where race is involved, is not about Zimmerman in their eyes. Just like the President, whose DOJ sent teams down to FL to begin the agitations against Zimmerman before the case gained the attention in the press it has today, they decided the case before the first presentations by the DA. And it had nothing to do with Zimmerman or Martin other than their usefulness as symbols.
Call it a result of the collectivist mindset where the idea of justice, which can only refer to how an individual is or has been treated, has been perverted by the qualifier “social.” The “social” in social justice is by definition about group/tribe/collective and in which the individual only matters in relation to his affiliation.
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FWIW, I hope there aren’t riots.
A lot of people want riots, though.