On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, Kevin Gosztola and I speak with independent journalist and filmmaker Raven Rakia about the Michael Dunn verdict, Jordan Davis’ defiance of respectability politics, the lack of outrage over police killings, and how structural and implicit racism work together to perpetuate what Raven calls the “presumed guiltiness of black […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_E9vvC2K0 On her MSBC show Sunday morning, Melissa Harris-Perry spoke about the murder of Jordan Davis, an unarmed black 17-year-old in Jacksonville, Florida. She was clear that Davis’s murder was different than Trayvon Martin’s because the shooter, Michael Dunn, was arrested the following day. Still, Harris-Perry went on to address the undeniable similarities between the […]
Michael Dunn’s attorney has assured the media that this case bears no resemblance to Trayvon Martin. CNN reports: Her client, Michael Dunn, is no “vigilante” but did feel threatened and shot out of “self defense,” the attorney said. “There are no comparisons to the Trayvon Martin situation,” said Robin Lemonidis, Dunn’s attorney. “He is devastated […]
If I had to guess, I would say that 17-year-old Jordan Davis, like most teens, was excited for the weekend on Friday when he and his friends pulled up to a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. But thanks to the racist fears of an armed white man, Jordan didn’t make it past Friday night. Michael […]
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