{"id":49757,"date":"2021-11-25T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49757"},"modified":"2021-11-25T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:48:53","slug":"racial-justice-has-it-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49757","title":{"rendered":"Racial justice: Has it arrived?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45494\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/justice.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One jury verdict does not necessarily signal a trend, although some thinkers and analysts are trying to ascribe a trend to the Georgia jury that convicted three white men of murdering a black man.<\/p>\n<p>The trend that some are asking: Does this verdict signal the arrival of racial justice in America?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hold on here. Ahmad Arbery was jogging through a white neighborhood when he was accosted by three men who seemingly though that Arbery, who was black, didn&#8217;t belong there. One of the men shot Arbery to death and that individual, Travis McMichael, was convicted of all the charges associated with the killing.<\/p>\n<p>The jury, comprising 11 white people and one black individual, delivered a stern warning to anyone thinking they can hide behind a &#8220;self-defense law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What about the racial justice question? If it spells the end of verdicts that acquit white people of killing a black person on flimsy evidence, the answer is &#8220;no,&#8221; we don&#8217;t have racial justice. Nor do we have it if a jury acquits a black individual if he kills white victims, such as what occurred in 1995 when a mostly black jury acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering his former wife and her friend.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to ascribe an abundance of significance to the Georgia jury&#8217;s verdict. I welcome it, but let&#8217;s wait a long while before we attach any historical significance to what the jury has ruled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One jury verdict does not necessarily signal a trend, although some thinkers and analysts are trying to ascribe a trend to the Georgia jury that convicted three white men of murdering a black man. The trend that some are asking: Does this verdict signal the arrival of racial justice in America? Let&#8217;s hold on here. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racial justice: Has it arrived?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[9376,9818,3808],"class_list":["post-49757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-justice","tag-racial-equity","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49758,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757\/revisions\/49758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}