Pambazuka News 641: Trayvon Martin, Egypt and the quest for human dignity

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In his effort to “put the angry Black genie back in the bottle” following George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Obama once again claimed to oppose racial profiling. He’s lying. Obama has endorsed the most prolific racial profiler in the country as a potential head of Homeland Security. The president is a bulwark of the system that targets millions of Trayvon Martins

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Delivery systems and platforms for information may proliferate at blinding speed, but most Americans have no access to anything resembling the truth. They may know the names of the dead – like Trayvon Martin – but have no clue why they died

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George Zimmerman is no more provably racist in a U.S. court than most white Americans – which is why a Justice Department action will get nowhere. Whites consider it ‘reasonable’ to believe in the inherent dangerousness of Black males

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