Tag: Zimmerman

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice, Cont’d.

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    How do you think the Zimmerman trial would have ended under these circumstances? Elspeth Reeve takes Richard Cohen of the Washington Post to task in her Atlantic Column: Richard Cohen’s column in Tuesday’s Washington Post— arguing that George Zimmerman was right to assume Trayvon Martin was a criminal, because he was a black male—is racist and…

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic best describes the underlying societal attitudes and narratives that resulted in the acquittal of George Zimmerman.  My own response is one of impotence and sadness.  I’m so sorry for the parents of Trayvon Martin.  They had to fight to get this trial, endure the criminalization of their 17-year-old son and then…