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The Zimmerman exoneration shocked millions in this country by revealing that Florida state law, at the very least, provides a legal loophole for vigilante violence against people of color. What I want to show here is that there is a comparably terrifying situation in the borderlands, one in which state violence against migrants and Mexican nationals like José Antonio is carried out with almost total impunity and governmental nontransparency. This is not an effort to direct attention away from Trayvon and toward José Antonio and the Border Patrol, to put the two tragedies into competition for attention. It is, rather, an attempt to link the two deaths, to show that they are both a part of the bigger picture of white supremacy and racialized control. truth-out.org/opinion/item/17949-no-justice-in-sanford-no-peace-in-the-borderlands-stand-your-ground-border-policing-and-the-mass-production-of-corpses-of-color
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:25:17 +0000

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