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OPEN SEASON ON BLACK TEENAGERSMichael Dunn and open season on black teenagers: The onslaught of white murder
Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black people respond?
BRITTNEY COOPER
How much more are black people in this country supposed to take?
On Saturday, a Florida jury failed to convict Michael Dunn for the callous murder of Jordan Davis. Though he was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and also on a gun charge, a mistrial was declared for the first-degree murder charge. He will face substantial jail time perhaps up to 75 years on the four charges for which he was found guilty.
Prosecutor Angela Corey has also publicly declared her intent to seek retrial on the murder conviction. However, she is the same prosecutor who oversaw the Zimmerman murder trial and failed to get a conviction. She is the same prosecutor who has over zealously prosecuted Marissa Alexander, for firing a warning shot into the wall to scare off her violent ex-husband. The Alexander case is the only case of the three for which she has gotten a conviction, and though Alexander has been granted a new trial, Corey intends yet again to send her to prison for 20 years for a crime that harmed no one.
Therefore, I dont trust Corey. It is clear that Florida prosecutors are fairly unclear about how to defend black life against an onslaught of white murder.
Yes, I know that Jordans killer may spend the rest of his life in prison. But this is not about jail time. This case, like the case of Trayvon Martin, hinges on whether white fear legally outweighs and is therefore more legally defensible than black life. The day before Jordan Davis would have turned 19 years old, a court failed to affirm the value of his life, his right to exist in space enjoying music with his friends, his right not to be harassed by someone while doing something as mundane as sitting in a parking lot at a gas station.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/02/18/michael_dunn_and_open_season_on_black_teenagers_the_onslaught_of_white_murder/
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Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black peo [View all]
DonViejo
Feb 2014
OP
"Until we begin to see black men as human beings and not thugs there will be no justice."
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2014
#26
The law should act as a deterrent, not just a means of retribution. SYG does the opposite.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#70
As Dick Gregory said about Reagan's "law and order" platform... "He's always talking ....
Scuba
Feb 2014
#71
They should rename the law, "I Am 'Scared' Of You Therefore I Get To Kill You." IASOYTIGTKY
Rex
Feb 2014
#117
i guess if they see a white guy with a gun, they are allowed to shoot him under SYG nt
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#5
Yep, some of these guys seem to have declared open warfare on blacks and they go
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#28
I blame the prosecutor. I don't see how the First Degree Murder was going to stick. n/t
dilby
Feb 2014
#7
Still a stretch. If the prosecutor thought he was guilty of 1st degree murder they
dilby
Feb 2014
#12
Or one juror did not believe Dunn's lies, but is tickled pink that Dunn killed a Black kid. n/t
ieoeja
Feb 2014
#36
The reason I said that was because he was the only one who brought up race war.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#80
The string of murders of Black Americans will end when racism ends. Probably never.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#32
Leave. There's nothing there that isn't way better someplace else. One nation cannot contain
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#39
That strategy might work if there were enough sane people there to make it possible,
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#55
No. People have to grow the hell up and stop trying to have privilege over others.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#63
Can every black yout now shoot first in fear of being shot? Does every white man look like a
kelliekat44
Feb 2014
#51