Definition: Recognizing racism is the ability to discern the presence of negative racial stereotyping and its response/reaction and relevance to the current situation presenting itself.
This third week’s post is example # 26, our final example, in my series of concrete ways in which to identify and recognize racism.

26.)    If the Media supports, although may strongly disagree with, the mostly white jury’s’ verdict on the Casey Anthony trial, based upon circumstantial evidence, as an example of and confirmation/validation of our justice system’s worth/value without ever questioning and/or demeaning the individual jury members as ineffective, etc., and never questioning the process that resulted in the outcome, after having condemned, on a very personal level, the mostly black jury’s decision on the O.J. Simpson trial based upon circumstantial evidence, as stupid, ignorant, uninformed and biased, and further suggesting changing the entire procedure, to allow for a “majority only” vote instead of a unanimous one needed for a murder conviction, to correct the “travesty” of his acquittal. And if this Media support for the jury and our system of justice was offered during the Casey Anthony trial discussed along with the O.J. Simpson trial as “comparable” egregious offenses. That’s racism.

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