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What I saw was the defense preying on White fears, the' long, dirty toenails' -- that is an old trope of the' Black Beast.' That is the stuff coming out of Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When he looked at the jury and said something like,' Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you knows that this is what we're fighting down here. You'll find these men not guilty.' That's what that sounded like to me, it sounded like,' Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you knows that Black people are threatening. They're intimidating. And they're out to destroy our community. What the McMichaels and William Roddie Bryan did was protect our community,'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This was like the slave patrol that felt that it had the right to question Black people, to police the movements of Black people, to challenge Black people wherever they were.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What's built into this is the inequality of the system itself, you know that somebody who is Black or Hispanic will not be able to go up into an all-White precinct and start challenging those voters without having a massive law-enforcement response.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's infuriating because we've done this dance before, we know what a Jim Crow democracy looks like and the damage it does to the United States of America and to its people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They will chip, chip away at these laws until there is nothing left.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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