Trayvon Martin and Black on Black Violence
The killing of Trayvon Martin with impunity and the implicit blessing of the Sanford police department has brought to light some genuine ugliness in the American public in its discussion on race and justice. Apologists for George Zimmerman invariably bring up the recent St Patrick's Day killings in Chicago as an argument that black folks kill people too. No-one is disputing that. But unless the Chicago PD stood around, looked at all the dead bodies and the guilty with their smoking guns, pulled their thumbs out of their butts, sniffed them then said "Duhhh...okay. Nothing to see here. You can all go..." Then the situations are not nearly the same. The culpability for the crime is not for George Zimmerman alone, but even more for the police department for 1. Not arresting George Zimmerman. 2. Not even subjecting George Zimmerman to a background check, drug/alcohol test. Even though all of the above were preformed on the dead black kid. 3. Not even bothering to collec...