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In reply to the discussion: Trial Update [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)Good for you shit canning that attorney.
As for your nephew, even being from the South, I have never understood the hatred of People of Color by White folks.
One of my earliest 'experiences' back in the 70s, when I was 5 or 6, was my Mom, Aunt, and some cousins going to the drive-in to see Walking Tall. It was one of those traumatizing experiences that shaped my visceral reaction to racism.
Seeing the cold blooded murder a family by racists made me realize at that young age that no-one is safe from that kind of hatred.
When I got older, and as I became more aware of my Father's activism and association with the Civil Rights movement, I came to understand that my fear of the possibility of violence was all to real to the African Americans that I knew and was friends with.
The violence that some White people are capable of, especially in groups, toward People of Color is horrifying and needs to be understood to be both criminal and unacceptable in our society.
The fact that so many get a pass by both their peers and the justice system is sickening.
I have watched the rise of the racist Republican Party, especially Trump, and the 'soft' racism of large portions of the rest of White people with growing unease.
Anyway, All the best to you and your family. And may the wheels of justice roll toward the criminal and not the victim!