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Ahmaud Arbery was the victim. But for weeks, he was painted as a brute and a thug in the trial of the three White men who killed him. This tactic isn't new, but rather the latest example in a long history of court cases that criminalize and dehumanize Black victims.
Race and racial tensions were clearly on display inside and outside the Georgia courtroom where the three men were tried, even as both the defense and the prosecution shied away from those discussions. Instead, the jury heard from the defense a number of racist dog whistles.
"What I saw was the defense preying on White fears," said Carol Anderson, a historian and the chair of African American studies at Emory University. "The 'long, dirty toenails' -- that is an old trope of the 'Black Beast.' That is the stuff coming out of Reconstruction and Jim Crow."
Here's why the heart-wrenching trial was a textbook example of the criminalization and dehumanization of Black male victims:
Angie Maxwell, a political scientist at the University of Arkansas and the co-author of the 2019 book "The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics," said that she believes that the defense was trying to put Arbery "in a (specific) category of Black person."
The toenails comment attempted to signal to jurors that Arbery was "one of 'those' Black people who isn't someone you would admire or respect," Maxwell said, someone "you can't trust, and who doesn't take care of himself."
Anderson, the historian, said that people of many races and ethnicities look at houses under construction, and their behavior is seen as standard or normal.
"But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing," Anderson said.
The McMicheals' decision to chase Arbery was rooted in the idea that Black people are criminals, Anderson said.
"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," Anderson said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/ah...ays/index.html
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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christiefan915 (11-26-2021), Doc Dutch (11-26-2021), evince (11-28-2021), signalmankenneth (11-25-2021), ThatOwlWoman (11-28-2021)
Lol, besides TDAK who is cheering for the McMichael's on this forum!?
Arbery was killed on Feb. 23, 2020, but his death didn’t become part of the national consciousness until that May, when Bryan’s video was leaked and posted online. It was weeks before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white officer, which sparked national and international protests about police brutality and systemic racism.
Shortly after Arbery’s death his relatives were raising the alarm that no arrests or charges had been filed weeks after he had been gunned down. His family and activists and suspected race played a factor in law enforcement’s initial reluctance to act.
It would take more than two months before local authorities asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to open a probe into the case. Prior to that, two district attorneys recused themselves.
One of those attorneys, former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, who is white, was indicted in September. She is facing charges stemming from allegedly directing local law enforcement not to arrest Travis McMichael and for “showing favor to Greg McMichael,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Greg McMichael is a retired law enforcement officer in the area.
GBI arrested McMichaels on May 7, two days after receiving the case. Two weeks later Bryan was arrested.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ict/ar-AAR6wRN
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
Doc Dutch (11-26-2021), evince (11-28-2021), Hoosier Daddy (11-26-2021)
What about his long dirty toenails? Did you forget that black crime?
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