No one should be surprised about the not-guilty verdict.
It was a foregone conclusion in many ways and for many reasons.
A sympathetic judge.
The defendant handpicking his own jury.
The state of Wisconsin having a pervasive gun culture, which means that as long as the person is White, it is fine for them to own and indiscriminately use handheld weapons of mass destruction against People of Color and their allies.
While listening to legal experts talk about the burden of proof carried by the prosecutor, the damning fact remains that a Black person sitting in the defendant's place would have been immediately shot dead by police, would not have lived to shoot three people, killing two, and if he had somehow miraculously lived long enough to go to trial, he would have been found guilty of murder under the exact same laws and circumstances.
The verdict continues the sad narrative of a country that loves to proclaim itself as a beacon of freedom and independence, when in fact, the country is enslaved by bigotry and intolerance and totally dependent on preserving its racial biased culture.
The verdict, in the most clear and unmistakable terms says the following:
People of Color are second class citizens.
The allies of People of Color are also second class citizens, and their lives are just as worthless and expendable as the people they support and encourage.
American jurisprudence is not blind. She clearly sees guilt in POCs, but looks in another direction when non-POCs are involved.
White people are continually encouraged to take out hunting licenses against POCs.
We can be killed unarmed sleeping, unarmed eating ice cream, unarmed selling on street corners, unarmed playing with toys, unarmed driving, unarmed running, basically unarmed living life.
The authentic tears of POC victims are meaningless compared to the crocodile tears of a White Supremacist.
Once again, America has shown that it is incapable of acting in the best interests of all of its citizens. Preferential treatment, sympathy, empathy is available in voluminous quantities, if the hue is White.
This country continues to careen toward more days of reckoning. The racial injustice that permeates this nation will not continue to stand or go unpunished.
For that, I defer to a power greater and higher, that sees and judges all, and that doesn't miss any transgressions.
The history of this country has been written as much by the innocent victims of its so-called progress as it has by patriots.
And America will be and is being judged accordingly.
Sadly, the writing has been on the wall that there are two systems of justice in this country, one for whites and one for everyone else. Just this past week this was proven once again when a white male who knowingly used his dead wife's ballot to vote for trump then essentially became the poster child for voter fraud as he touted that he had no idea how that vote got cast but it showed something nefarious was going on the he got essentially probation when caught but a young black woman in another state went to vote after getting out of jail, was told she could vote, then voted, got charged with voter fraud because the law there is she couldn't vote while she was on probation, so she got 5 years jail time for a simple mistake. As you well know similar things happen all the time when it comes to prison sentences, presumption of guilt or innocence, and the likelihood of a white person verses a person of color to even make it to the police station alive. I am deeply saddened, angry, and disappointed as I watch this happening as it makes me realize there are far too many white people who keep their blinders on because if they take them off and see reality then they will have to face the fact there is nothing special about them that justifies them having more privileges and opportunities just because of their skin color. As much as this angers, frustrates, and disappointed this makes me, I can't imagine the intensity of those feelings in people of color who have had to live with these facts every day of their lives. Thank you for your posts. I appreciate them and post them hoping to help others start peeling away the blinders.