Zimmerman Verdict: What Does Justice Look Like?

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Zimmerman Not Guilty in Killing of Trayvon Martin

What Does #Justice4Trayvon Look Like?

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George Zimmerman, Not Guilty: Blood on the Leaves

From the outset— throughout the forty-four days it took for there to be an arrest, and then in the sixteen months it took to for this case to come to trial—there was a nagging suspicion that it would culminate in disappointment.

Call this historical profiling.

The perspective is a strange, terrible echo of the words Zimmerman uttered that rainy night in central Florida: they always get away.

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  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/open-season-black-boys-verdict
     “Let it be noted that on this day, Saturday 13 July 2013, it was still
    deemed legal in the US to chase and then shoot dead an unarmed young
    black man on his way home from the store because you didn’t like the
    look of him…..
    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….”