A friend just posted a link to this article on Facebook.
Knowing what I know about civil rights in this country and the prison-industrial complex (which isn’t enough, as it is, but still), how can I say that I’m even remotely surprised by this news?
And maybe surprise isn’t the right word for what I feel.
Maybe it’s just sadness.
Sadness that even with evidence like this, so many of my fellow Americans choose to deny the existence of injustice in our present time — (“it’s 2013. We’re over that kind of stuff now. We have a black president – what more do you want?”) turning their backs while this kind of violence is performed with their tax dollars.
Amorphous Amphibian 