Not to overload anyone on political coverage, but Ta-Nehisi Coates’s reaction to the George Zimmerman trial is an absolute must-read.
In it, he looks at the actual legal text involved in the case and points out that what’s so deeply frightening about it isn’t that the verdict flouted the law; it’s that the law—and in many ways, the entire concept of American justice—is written to enable this kind of verdict.
And of course, because he’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, he writes with such empathy and clarity that you’ll get chills down your spine reading it. Seriously: chills.
