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Originally Posted by djchameleon
You know logically I understand that but having dealt with it all of my life it always feels like it's a race related issue. Especially when you see the same clerk not care about a white person that enters the store but then you get followed and have someone constantly looking at you as a minority. It's really hard to just logically think about it when you are in the heat of the moment and you feel like it only happens to people of color.
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I get that, and I understand emotions frequently trump logic and evidence, but if there's one thing I think the justice system did right in this case is not let that happen. Regardless of the shoddy job the prosecution did, I don't think racism is to blame here simply because it's the easiest thing to latch onto in order to feel wronged, and thus, have a cause to fight for that didn't really exist in this case.
Honestly, if we really ask ourselves had the verdict come out differently, would this really even be an issue right now? It certainly wouldn't be a verdict reading, "guilty of racism in the first degree". It wouldn't have anything to do with that.