Feeling Some Kinda Way...
When I heard about the acquittal of G. Zimmerman I wasn't surprised, saddened by yet another blatant example of justice being neither blind nor just, definitely, but not surprised. What surprises me is that so many people seem to be surprised.
Surrounding this case I have seen conversations on FB that startled me in their naiveté and in some cases willful ignorance. People who claim to have the best of intentions say things without a hint of irony like "only a small percentage of people look at someone and judge them by the color of their skin" I did manage to refrain from adding my unasked for 2 cents to that conversation but I wondered mightily what oasis in the US they were living in so that I could make plans to move. I've seen people wonder aloud for what was seemingly the first time about the possibility of their future children being in the same danger due to being mixed race even though they have been involved with a PoC for years. It makes me wonder why it takes a case that gets nationwide media attention and a personal self interest to "make it real" so to say? Racism certainly hadn't gone anywhere before this trial only to come out and display itself in the nation's livingrooms for our collective enlightenment.
I don't agree with the statements that have been made that the verdict has declared open season on black youth, open season never ended, the verdict only reinforced the status quo.
Surrounding this case I have seen conversations on FB that startled me in their naiveté and in some cases willful ignorance. People who claim to have the best of intentions say things without a hint of irony like "only a small percentage of people look at someone and judge them by the color of their skin" I did manage to refrain from adding my unasked for 2 cents to that conversation but I wondered mightily what oasis in the US they were living in so that I could make plans to move. I've seen people wonder aloud for what was seemingly the first time about the possibility of their future children being in the same danger due to being mixed race even though they have been involved with a PoC for years. It makes me wonder why it takes a case that gets nationwide media attention and a personal self interest to "make it real" so to say? Racism certainly hadn't gone anywhere before this trial only to come out and display itself in the nation's livingrooms for our collective enlightenment.
I don't agree with the statements that have been made that the verdict has declared open season on black youth, open season never ended, the verdict only reinforced the status quo.
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