"The simple truth is that what happened in Sanford, Florida, is a tragedy law cannot mend. It is a tragedy produced by our culture itself—a culture where racial divides and distrust remain as prevalent as they were when Rodney King, a black man, was beaten by white police officers in 1991, or when Abner Louima, another black man, was beaten and sodomized in 1997 by police officers in a Brooklyn police station."

Why George Zimmerman’s 2nd-degree murder charge fixes nothing. (via cheatsheet)

Again, don’t get complacent. Zimmerman is one man, and the way this country operates in relation to race must be addressed if there is going to be real and lasting progress.

(via black-culture)

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