(Ur thoughts) Last week, Creshuna Miles, Juror No. 8 in the Michael Dunn trial, gave an interview to CNN about the jury’s partial verdict. Although she believes that Michael Dunn is guilty of second-degree murder, a lesser charge for which the jury had the option to convict, she insisted that the case was not about race, that it never came up. Moreover, she believed Michael Dunn to be essentially a good guy, who made bad choices. Startlingly, she also indicated that until Dunn ran down the street chasing Jordan’s three friends, she actually believed that Dunn acted in self-defense. Post-racial thinking is insidious not only because it gives lie to the very real and continuing material consequences of racism in this country, but also because it seduces young, optimistic, idealistic black youth into identifying with the very systems and people who would kill them without a second thought — and then go order a pizza and a take a nap. - Brittney Cooper, Post-racial America is a dangerous lie: Why the fantasy is naive, insidious and deadly via Son of Baldwin
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:54:11 +0000
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