Jay-Z has a executive produced a 6 part documentary on Trayvon Martin that looks pretty promising:
And apparently, some who were interviewed have fears that they are going to be harassed by George Zimmerman and that he may even commit an act of murder because of it:
Kevin Kruse is kind of great… I heard him at a conference at Emory once… I think he got into it with one of the audience members as we was discussing his current work, which I believe was on the conservative movement…
I also often do just what he’s describing with the Emmett Till lynching. I’m not really doing the narrative this semester (history through biographies), but I can likely fit a discussion of lynchings into my lecture on Ella Baker and Cesar Chavez.
One of these men walks free, the other is imprisoned and forced to labor for decades.
But supposedly prison slavery is justified by the wrongdoing of the enslaved?
That’s a weak argument even if the legal system were just. In the face of the obvious systemic injustice that exists, it becomes nothing more than an excuse for the indefensible.