Arguing whether Brown was a good kid or not is functionally - TopicsExpress



          

Arguing whether Brown was a good kid or not is functionally arguing over whether he specifically deserved to die, a way of acknowledging that some black men ought to be executed. To even acknowledge this line of debate is to start a larger argument about the worth, the very personhood, of a black man in America. Its to engage in a cost-benefit analysis, weigh probabilities, and gauge the precise odds that Browns life was worth nothing against the threat he posed to the life of the man who killed him. Its to deny that there are structural reasons why Brown was shot dead while James Eagan Holmes—who on July 20, 2012, walked into a movie theater and fired rounds into an audience, killing 12 and wounding 70 more—was taken alive.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:52:07 +0000

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