Kigali: Sign in front of National Memorial to the victims of Genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, Africa. Let me start with two pieces of good news, then pose some unsettling questions.
It is very good news that a court convicted for murder the three white men who hunted down Ahmaud Arbery and killed him . They’d claimed that they were “volunteer deputies” performing a “citizen’s arrest” of a young black man whom they suspected of trespassing and misdemeanor robbery. The jury rightly rejected this effort to put a little lipstick on the pig that was a lynch mob. Some 50 years ago, three white men might well have gotten away with something like that. White juries in the South often voted based on tribalism more than justice — as juries of different ethnic composition today are also tempted to do.
It’s equally good news that Kyle Rittenhouse was entirely vindicated for his […]
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