Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted by a jury with no Black jurors. Whatever one believes about the verdict itself, we cannot ignore the larger truth that many Americans are wrestling with: justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment.
This requires more than reaction. It requires moral honesty about who is deemed dangerous, whose pain is centered, and how differently accountability has often been applied in America. If we want justice worthy of its name, it cannot be shaped by race.
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This is such an interesting social experiment because if you pressed a single person in this video they would say they’re not racist but somehow they always seem to accept the most racist thing.
The fact that an 14 year old boy was RACIALLY profiled the minute he walked into the store, was accused of stealing water that he DID NOT TAKE, left the store camly get chased 130 yards by two GROWN Asian men and shot in the back get off not guilty!!!I’m so sorry Cyrus Belton💔
On this day in 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for 9 & a 1/2 mins in a video that shocked many, even moving people to act to end racism. That pursuit still matters.
Rest in peace George Floyd🙏🏾
The president cancelling tv shows he doesn’t like & memeing about it on social media is a dystopian nightmare.
10 years, the very thought of this occurring would have been uncontroversially anti-american.
MAGA has destroyed our country.