(Do Not) Pardon Him
The same energy that allowed the confederates to return and expand their racist power that to this day harms indigenous and Black folk. The call for pardons-coming from left and right.. white people and media rips off the facade of equal justice under the law.
We really need to self-interrogate why the calls for justice are so strong for say, Jussie Smollett or Will Smith but not for Donald Trump. Or killer Kyle Rittenhouse, Brock Turner, or <insert name of any of a number of killer cops>.
Let’s recall that Trump professed to love law and order, and called on the…