Ten years ago I read a book titled "Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston." What shook me in the book was not so much the history of racism in sports in Boston, but a chapter about a white man killing his wife and framing a black man. And only when the white man's brother came forward to confess his involvement in the murder plot, were the black man's pleas of innocence finally believed by police and most white Boston citizens.
The Boston media and white communities were shocked when they heard the brother's revelation, as well as, the reported suicide of his guilty white brother hours later.
Meanwhile, a black community, already struggling with a history of racism in Boston, were left with scary warnings and reminders of just how vulnerable their skin color and stereotyped neighborhood makes them in a racist society. Seems the more things change racially in America, the more they stay the same. White Privilege.
White Privilege allows for a white man to blame a black man for a crime he, the white man, planned, carried out, and almost made believable to a white justice system. As long as race and color are treated unequally in society, justice in the hands of the Privileged will be unbalanced and unjust toward the Underprivileged.
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