Apparently Black boys cannot be victims in the United States. Or so a South Florida court has coldly told the world. The 6-member jury accepted that Blackness 'reasonably' invokes fear & lethal responses to it. If so, where are Black boys to go to be safe? In the course of the trial, the judge forbade a discussion of Racial Profiling and thus eliminated the opportunity for it to be the trial it needed to be: one that challenges the construction of Blackness as dangerous. I have no illusions about a broken criminal justice system that daily destroys more than it builds, but even it needs to "perform" at times just to legitimate itself. No cover left for its blatant biases - blackness seems to pierce the blindfolds of America's Lady Justice.
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