Author: Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

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Why Are People Angry That Race Was Not Mentioned During Deliberations in Dunn’s Trial?

 

“Recently, two of the jurors in the case of Michael Dunn have interviewed with CNN. Both were asked if race was mentioned during deliberations.  Both answered “no.”  Then, panels discussing the interviews voiced their disagreement with the jury not discussing race during deliberations.  Some online sources have also criticized those jurors. Even Jordan Davis’ father said he could not see how it didn’t come up since Dunn’s girlfriend gave credible testimony that he used the words “thug music.””

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I do think bias played a part in Michael Dunn’s actions. I suppose race was not mentioned by the prosecution because a hate crime would require more specific hate speech.

 

This is the hate speech I heard him use:

  • “rap crap”
  • “son of a bitch”
  • “animals” – when referring to others in the prison.

 

I suppose the prosecution didn’t want to go down the hate crime road with only those three phrases.

See on blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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Video Showing Savage Attack by Brute Cop on a Severely Restrained Inmate Surfaces a Year Later

Many are asking why the Judge in whose courtroom this vicious attack took place simply watched with indifference as a helpless inmate was beaten before her very eyes.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This is the sick racist system of the U.S.

 

The judge doesn’t want to get on the bad side of the cops so he allows the man to be humiliated, rammed into a post and yelled at right in front of him and he doesn’t say a mumbling word to stop it.

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The Logic of the Michael Dunn Jury

 

The most amazing feature of our era is the belief that 300 years of racist policy gives no tell on our daily lives. The second is the belief that juries are somehow beyond reproach.

 

This is about whether we will live in candor or live in flattery. This is about whether we will continue the dishonorable tradition of leaving uncomfortable business to be inherited by our children…

 

A very wise man wrote me the other day and said he would have been happier if Dunn had been convicted of first-degree murder, gotten 15 years, and then was released to try to pick up the pieces of his life. And I think that really gets to the point. This is not about the ruination of white people—individual or collective. This is about coping with a heritage of regarding black people as subhuman.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“Proof that Michael Dunn’s mistrial wasn’t about confusion over self-defense”

 

@xtinasterbenz

 

See on www.theatlantic.com

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What Happens When A White Guy Tries To Steal A Car And What Happens When A Black Guy Tries

Stereotypes persist.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I think there are a couple videos on the “What would you do” show along these lines.

 

One where a white guy and then a black guy are trying to break a bicycle lock,

 

Another were some white guys then some black guys are vandalizing a car.

 

See on www.businessinsider.com

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We Always Judge From Where We Stand

 

“When I had that debate with the aldermen about the proposed sagging pants ban in St. Louis, I was on the phone with my ward’s representative. One of my arguments was that this law would be enforced along racial lines. I pointed to the fact that St. Louis arrests black people at 18 times the rate of white people for marijuana offenses despite similar rates of usage. He quickly countered that he knows white people who smoke marijuana, but they do it in the privacy of their own homes where no one can see them. “They’re not out on their front porch doing it!” he cried.

 

Obviously, he’s making some pretty sweeping generalizations about who uses marijuana how, but let’s go ahead and take him at his word for the sake of argument. White people smoke weed behind closed doors; black people do it on their front porches where they can be seen. The implication is that the white choice is the standard (“Sure, everyone does it, but these people do it the right way.”) To then say that a deviation from that choice is substandard (and thus deserving of an arrest) ignores the inequality present in what gets read as a “criminal” act.”
See on www.balancingjane.com

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Last Night on Jeopardy No One Wanted to Answer Qs About Black History

Happy Black History Month, everyone, courtesy of last night’s all-white College Jeopardy panel! In the second round of play, the contestants sailed through five of the categories–including “International Cinema Showcase,” “Weather Verbs,” and “Kiwi Fauna”–but avoided the sixth like the, ahem, black plague. That category was “African-American History.”

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Border Patrol agent shoots, kills migrant who threw rocks

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has shot and killed an apparently undocumented migrant who allegedly threw rocks at the agent, striking his face, near San Diego.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

U.S. / Mexico border news sounds a lot like Palestine / Israel border news.

See on www.cnn.com