Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: City Lights Publishers

WILL TRAYVON MARTIN’S KILLER BE ACQUITTED?

July 8, 2013

By the time these words reach you, perhaps it will all be over.

“It” is the Zimmerman trial in Florida.

I have no idea how the trial may have boosted ratings for CNN, or CNBC, for that matter, but I’d bet it helped increase the usual low summer viewership.

In this place—a prison population—every man with a mouth wants to discuss the case: In the chow hall. On the walkways. In the gym. On the yard.

Not even the buxom beauties of Love and Hip Hop have garnered that much attention.

“Are you watching the trial?”

“Who do you think is gonna win?”

Questions bounce like basketballs, as all eyes are locked on this, the latest “trial of the century.”

The trial of George Zimmerman for killing unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has snatched a level of public attention that hasn’t been seen since the O.J. Simpson murder trial in the mid-1990s.

I believe, frankly, that Zimmerman will be acquitted.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think so.

I’ve never seen a defense lawyer utilize, so skillfully, the jiu-jitsu-style techniques of witness flipping.

In all honesty, the state’s prosecution witnesses became defense witnesses.

And where the defense was adroit, the prosecutor bumbled and fumbled.

I may be wrong—I hope I’m wrong—but I don’t think I am.

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