Another American Atrocity
Anyone who knows anything about the U.S. criminal justice system knows that we have been murdering African Americans for some centuries now. First it was rebel and runaway slaves. Then is was the lynchable -- entertainment in which unappreciated Americans could win fame by being pictured with their kids mugging at a lynching on a picture postcard available at your corner pharmacy.
More recently we have been executing African Americans who are indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and executed in numbers obviously massively distorted by prejudices. The Supreme Court even has acknowledged such.
Bottom line. Had Stanley Tookie Williams been convicted of rape-murder, he might have had available DNA evidence proving his innocence. Unfortunately he has only been tried for murders which he denies having committed. Frankly having been a legal philosopher through a number of decades watching this travesty -- capital punishment -- which the civilized world has now eschewed and also watching the murders of so many African American men -- King, Malcolm X, and a host of others whose books I have read and reviewed -- I wish that Ah-nold might have surprised us today. But the surprise would have been for him to have done so.
May Schwarzenegger not get the punishment that he deserves. I trust Williams' denial that he committed the crimes for which he will die. Such has been the American game for several centuries. African Americans are fair targets in Amerika -- for our public entertainment when we kill them off. Shame!
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