This observation comes unprovoked from any events in the news. Last night I heard a name that I haven't heard in a very long time. It is the name of Charles Stuart. Along with about a half-dozen others, he is responsible for the kind of crime I haven't heard in a long time. Murder a family member and blame the black man.
It's not the end of racism, but... I don't see this kind of story any longer. I would bet that there are none like it on the docket of the ACLU or any other watchdog group. Why? We obviously don't have so many racists in the police department and prosecutors offices that can sustain this kind of fiction. It's almost difficult for me to believe that 1990 was 18 years ago, but that's how old this story is. My boy brought it up in the old joke conversation about how bad Boston was for black men. "Ten years of my life that I'll never get back". Yeah, I wasted a couple there too.
So I'm prepared to chalk one up to progress, and take another shot at the Coalition of the Damned. As far as I know, there's only Mumia Abu Jamal who has retained any political cred in this game of representing the criminal justice system's categorical unfairness to blackfolks.
So it occurs to me, in response to YouTubers like Infamous Chris, that there may be an entire generation of black kids out there who find of the execution of Tookie Willims, the Jena debacle as well as that involving Shaquanda Cotton as the great racial controversies of their lifetime. Arguably there was prosecutorial misconduct in both situations, but at least they didn't go around arresting the wrong people. There's no other way to describe that but progress.
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