Please click this photo to read Mychal Denzel Smith’s latest at the nation…
As usual Mychal Denzel Smith writes so eloquently on the George Zimmerman trial for The Nation…
Because even a guilty verdict is only a consolation. It would send a one-time message that a black child’s life had value, but it would hardly shift the tide from the constant dehumanization. We would still be up against the same system—no only our criminal justice system but a larger cultural sytem—in which it was prudent to test Trayvon for drugs but not Zimmerman, that would ask a grieving mother if her son did anything to cause his own death, and that didn’t see fit to make an arrest for nearly a month and a half.
We were lucky he took time from his schedule covering the trial to talk with us. Listen to my conversation with him down below…