State of White Supremacy by Jung Moon-Kie;Costa Vargas João H.;Bonilla-Silva Eduardo;Bonilla-Silva Eduardo;

Author:Jung, Moon-Kie;Costa Vargas, João H.;Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo;Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF BEN LAGUER

“Breaking” the Ben LaGuer case—proving absolute innocence or guilt—is compelling. Yet the legal process does not actually prove guilt or innocence. Rather, it illuminates a process, overt and covert, by which certain crimes (and social castes) are punished.

The testimonies of police, courts, media, politicians, advocates, and DNA testers are not objective. Nor is the testimony of the convicted and incarcerated. However, a more complete telling of this case requires the witnessing of Ben LaGuer himself. The following correspondence and state documents sent by Ben LaGuer do not provide “evidence” or “proof” of a legal lynching. Nonetheless, in addition to previously shared information, they frame this case as highly problematic. They trouble the reader. They request or demand the burden of social scrutiny and analysis in a criminal case that became a political commodity. This case, like countless others shaped by bias and institutional prejudice, resides in the cold container of past, present, and future violations that we will either witness or ignore as our democracy, and the legal system which enables it, unfolds.

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