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That this letter remains so relevant today says so much more than all the jabbering talking heads on 10,000 "news " shows and beyond.America deserves a better discourse on the most important issues of our time.Not lip service,grandstanding or passing the buck.Hopefully there will be more Booker types who will start to make a real difference…
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And to think little if nothing has changed and in many ways is even worse. Grieving for America
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Nothing has changed. “Equal protection under the law?”
What a huge and unhappy laugh. The 50’s and 60’s riots and deaths were for nothing. sickening.
Plus ça change … Cory Booker’s righteous youthful rage still rings true today.
I must say, at least in the Rodney King case there were charges made, and a trial. What is so shocking and disheartening about the Michael Brown case is that the incident will never be brought to trial; that the grand jury procedure broke with all precedent, the prosecutor essentially acting as defense attorney for the accused; that the perpetrator was atypically called to testify. That’s not how it is supposed to work. This, to me, feels even a greater abrogation of justice than the one that occurred several decades ago. The chance for justice, even (however slim), was stopped in its tracks before a true trial before peers was able to occur.
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I can pretty much guarantee that there will be a civil trial.
It is eiry that the cops in the Rodney King incident said that Rodney King was Hulk like and like a Tasmanian Devil. Officer Wilson said Micheal Brown was like Hulk Hogan and looked like a demon to him.
So you are right!