In the Treacherous Middle of Travon’s Death
They’d staked out their positions early on, liberals with Travon and conservatives with Zimmerman. We go to our corners so quickly – reflexively. Everything is political, everything partisan.
This retreat to political camps even from journalists whose work speaks to scrupulous objectivity – who so distinguish themselves from the rest by being only as subjective as the facts allow. They are close, many of them, to my politics but they sure as hell went to their corners too. I couldn’t – not this time ...
... the political camps can go to hell – justice has not been done. It would not have been done if Zimmerman had been found guilty of murder and now it’s sure as hell not done because he’s been found not guilty of anything.
Justice, in this case, resided somewhere in the hard footing of the middle. We don’t like to go there because it’s a damn difficult walk through the gray crags of life. The treacherous middle. But that’s where justice was and that’s the place that the law and the partisans chose not to be. They were too busy in their corners.
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