“They’re not afraid anymore of us … They do anything they want to do now … You see a little white girl running down the street at 11 o’clock with her puppy, running by herself! In our community!”
A Washington, D.C., demonstrator Sunday night said the real lesson of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin shooting is simple:
Whites just aren’t scared enough of blacks.
And to her, that’s a bad thing.
“They’re not afraid anymore of us … They do anything they want to do now … You see a little white girl running down the street at 11 o’clock with her puppy, running by herself! In our community!”
An optimist — even a liberal optimist — might think that’s good. That black neighborhoods have become safer for everyone – white and black, men and women – to venture out in near midnight, protected only by a pet.
But not to this woman, who took the bullhorn right after a fellow protester — one of those unafraid white people — called the Zimmerman acquittal another example of dominant America’s intolerance toward all minority groups.
“There’s democracy in this country for a group of people, for the 1 percent, and the rest of us, the working class, black and brown people, LBGTQ people, we don’t get democracy,” he said.
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