Posted on 02/17/2014 3:36:06 PM PST by matt04
A partial mistrial in a Florida murder case for the shooting death of teenager Jordan Davis marks another example of failed justice involving a young black victim, according to the Rev. Talbert W. Swan II, president of the Greater Springfield chapter of the NAACP.
In a prepared statement released this week, Swan wrote that news of a mistrial on a first-degree murder charge against Michael Dunn left him saddened by the loss of life and angry at the justice system.
"The failure to convict Michael Dunn of murder only highlights the perceived value of black life and reinforces the stereotypes, which justify racial animus against Black males, their disenfranchisement, abuse, brutalization and mass incarceration," Swan wrote. "It further sends a clear message that murdering a black male can be justified simply on the basis of him being a black male."
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Swan said he is angry at a justice system "that refused to convict a white man for murdering a black boy on the basis of the stereotypical depiction of black males as threatening hoodlums, thugs and criminals."
"Sadly, this experience is not an isolated one," Swan wrote. "Largely, the lives of young Black men have never held great value in this country. From birth to untimely death, many of them have been treated as mules for labor, obvious scapegoats, easy targets and disposable — at no consequence to the disposer."
Swan said that calls for justice in such cases "are often dismissed as overly sensitive people yet again playing the proverbial race card."
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“The race activists might claim that Dunn was as guilty of first degree murder as, say, Mumia Abu Jamal and so if Mumia was given the death penalty, Dunn should have to.”
If you kill a cop in a state with the death penalty, you will get it, regardless of race. And what is this moron talking about, “mules for labor”??? Are we still stuck in 1860? /s
"You win a few.. lose a few... and some get rained out."
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