I am so glad the jurors didn't use the excuse- 'the law made me do it.'
Decent people know that in a democracy, the jury votes its conscience.
I don't mean to say vote a convenient conscience.
I mean to say it would have been justice for that hell of a jury in Sanford to have
believed John Guy when he said, 'that kid would have had to have fie or six hands to bang
a grown man's head while putting his hand over the man's mouth and reaching for the man's
gun all at the same time.'
But a person would have to have a clean and correct conscience to understand and believe
the truth in Mr. Guy's words.
Now Jordan Davis' suffering and loss has given Trayvon Martin's sacrifice a more resonant credence.
I am very thankful this Jackson jury did the right thing.
Maybe we are now one millimeter farther along on the escape from lynchings than we were when
Emmit was killed in Mississippi, and the jury of those killers' peers let them off scott free.
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