Zimmerman and the Hunting of Black Folks
By Bill Fletcher Jr., July 14, 2013 I received the news when I was getting ready to eat.I was prepared, intellectually, for a not-guilty verdict. I was not ready in my gut.As a radical, I am quite...
View ArticleZimmerman Verdict Reveals Racist System of Justice
By Matthew Rothschild, July 15, 2013 Welcome to America, where we don’t have freedom and justice for all.That’s the only conclusion you can draw from the awful verdict in the George Zimmerman...
View ArticleZimmerman Verdict: Unequal Justice
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View Article“Post-Racial”? No Way!
By Brian Gilmore, July 16, 2013 We were never post-racial.This is the message of the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The delusion is over.Many Americans never believed that anyway. Some did, and now they are...
View ArticlePraise for Eric Holder on Zimmerman Case
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View ArticleFour Truths the Zimmerman Jury Ignored
By Kirk Nielsen, July 16, 2013 In the prosecution’s last remarks to the six-woman jury of the George Zimmerman trial, assistant state attorney John Guy delivered a famous quote from Voltaire: “To the...
View ArticleWhy the Zimmerman verdict is more important than O.J.
By Kevin Alexander Gray, July 17, 2013 I believe the George Zimmerman verdict will be of greater racial and civil significance for blacks than the O.J. Simpson trial.First of all, there is no epidemic...
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