The same folks who argue that “the law” is why we must acquit a white teen are the same ones who argue that same “law” is why Trayvon Martin deserved to die. We can’t keep engaging them in this false framing as though there’s some objective system of justice here. There’s not.

I want us to let that go and pay close attention to what white society has signaled to us through actions of the past handful of years alone.//

@BreeNewsome Yes. If Kyle Rittenhouse was entitled to defend himself against a perceived threat, then so was Trayvon Martin. And then it all unravels. And then “the law” is a capricious whim, cruelly assigned as it suits the rulers.