“Appeals for calm in the wake of such a verdict raise the question of what calm there can possibly be in a place where such a verdict is possible. Parents of black boys are not likely to feel calm. Partners of black men are not likely to feel calm. Children with black fathers are not likely to feel calm.
Those who now fear violent social disorder must ask themselves whose interests are served by a violent social order in which young black men can be thus slain and discarded.”
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Those who now fear violent social disorder must ask themselves whose interests are served by a violent social order in which young black men can be thus slain and discarded.”
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Gary Younge, from his EXCELLENT piece about the Trayvon Martin verdict which was posted to the Guardian’s website and then, inexplicably, taken down swiftly after. You can read the whole thing HERE.
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