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Eddie Glaude's 'Gut Is Tight' Waiting For The Chauvin Trial Verdict Deadline MSNBC (Original Post) barbtries Apr 2021 OP
Eddie Glaud's bookshelf is amazing. More bookstore than home library. hlthe2b Apr 2021 #1
so i'm not the only one! barbtries Apr 2021 #3
It's early yet, I guess, for a murder case, gab13by13 Apr 2021 #2
mine as well. barbtries Apr 2021 #4
Im sure the defense has stacked the jury with at least one Majorie Taylor Greene. magicguido Apr 2021 #5
it is nerve racking. barbtries Apr 2021 #6

hlthe2b

(102,071 posts)
1. Eddie Glaud's bookshelf is amazing. More bookstore than home library.
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 07:00 AM
Apr 2021

That would have been a great place to wait out the pandemic in isolation.

barbtries

(28,753 posts)
3. so i'm not the only one!
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 09:49 AM
Apr 2021

ever since the pandemic i have spent my time trying to suss out the titles on the bookshelves behind the talking heads!

i think many of them place their books deliberately. But yeah right away you see okay he's a Toni Morrison fan and well learned guy...what else? Which of the books have i read? etc.

gab13by13

(21,218 posts)
2. It's early yet, I guess, for a murder case,
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 08:09 AM
Apr 2021

but if the deliberations go on for several days I am afraid of the outcome. My gut is "tight" also.

barbtries

(28,753 posts)
4. mine as well.
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 09:51 AM
Apr 2021

i got into a bit of a discussion yesterday here on DU because I offered that the defense disgusted me. I posted this video because Glaude expressed it more elegantly and eloquently than I did.

 

magicguido

(6,315 posts)
5. Im sure the defense has stacked the jury with at least one Majorie Taylor Greene.
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 09:58 AM
Apr 2021

This is why I don’t believe in the jury system;

barbtries

(28,753 posts)
6. it is nerve racking.
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 10:17 AM
Apr 2021

i hope he'll be convicted but am prepared for a hung jury. If he's acquitted I'm ready to join BLM on the street; i'm all vaccinated now and will keep my mask and my distance.

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