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Black People Say Casey Anthony Trial Proves America Is Racist or Something

Posted on | July 6, 2011 | 39 Comments

Having called her the “O.J. Simpson of baby-killers,” I honestly didn’t even think anyone could actually imagine a racial angle to the bizarre media circus that was the Casey Anthony trial. Evidently I was wrong:

I logged onto Twitter precisely as the verdict in Casey Anthony’s trial was announced. A good portion of the reactions I read in my timeline were ones of shock and anger. . . .
But there was another notable reaction. I read tweet after tweet with the following formulations: Had Casey been a black woman, she would have been convicted. . . .

That’s from Imani Perry at TheGrio.com, which is the “by black people, for black people, about black people” Web site. (Is a cracker like me even allowed to read TheGrio.com?) It’s kinda like those feminist Web sites where women get paid for being women writing about women’s issues for women, except that TheGrio.com is a commercial site owned by a major media conglomerate, NBC/Universal, so they’re really just workin’ for The Man, right? But I digress . . .

Lloyd Marcus asks, “Must everything be about race?” Why, yes — if the folks at TheGrio.com are going to earn their paychecks from NBC/Universal, everything must be about race. 

Race is their raison d’être, their sine qua non. (I thought about saying it’s also their weltenschauung, but I didn’t want to be a show-off.)

Beyond accusations of racial bias in the criminal justice system, there’s the racial theory of why the media went hog-wild for this particular murder case, as Andrew Cohen explains at The Atlantic:

Whether it’s right or its wrong, my theory is simple. Anthony is a white, middle-class woman — she might even have been a soccer mom if things had turned out differently – who had a darling, photogenic little girl. On many levels, her story connected with the vast swath of Americans who are themselves white, middle-class, and child-rearing.

But Cohen also observes that “the Casey Anthony story was made for Nancy Grace and Nancy Grace was made for the Casey Anthony story.” That is to say, Nancy Grace’s show on Headline News has become sort of the arbiter of which murder cases are “hot,” and the Casey Anthony saga had multiple elements that made it perfect for Nancy Grace.

So . . . Nancy Grace is racist? I dunno. Just throwing that out there as a possibility for Imani Perry to explore.

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Comments

  • MrPaulRevere

    From the comments at the Grio post:”If B.E.T didn’t spend all day airing naked black women and black male drug dealers as inspirations to all the black youth who watch it, perhaps they would have time to focus on murdered black children….”

  • Joe

    Well I will agree to the inverse that had O.J. been a white man he would have been convicted. 

    Off Topic but check this out:  http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/richard-dawkins-gets-into-comments-war.html   Welcome to the club!  See you and Richard Dawkins do have something in common Stacy! 

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    “Race is their raison d’être, their sine qua non. (I thought about saying it’s also their weltenschauung, but I didn’t want to be a show-off.)”

    I was told there would be no Swahili on this blog.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    I wonder if any of them would ever own up to the strong likelihood that if Obama were white Hillary Clinton might be president now instead of him.

  • Anonymous

    Heh. Thanks for that tip. Interesting story.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Had Casey been a black woman, she would have been convicted. . . .

    I don’t see how this could be the case since the judge is Black and there were two members of the jury who were also Black. Something just don’t compute here.

  • Joe
  • Joe

    Here is the offensive creepy thing that guy said to the feminist at 4:oo a.m. in the elevator: 

    So I walked to the elevator, and a man got on the elevator with me, and said, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting, and I would like to talk more. Would you like to come to my hotel room for coffee?”

    Wow.  Truly a monster he was.  And to think Dawkings had the termerity to react with sarcasm.  Well I guess Richard did not learn the lesson of Larry Summers.  There will be blood.  Evolution in action and guess who is on the short list for extinction. 

    Frankly I would like to see a picture of the guy in the elevator.  Because the truly amazing thing is that woman was propositioned at all. 

  • http://912member.blogspot.com just a conservative girl

    Geraldo made it about race months (maybe years ago).  He decided the only reason that she was facing death was because it was a white child.  Had the child been hispanic or black they would never have seeked death. 

  • http://twitter.com/jkdvsass Jake Vasser

    How do they dare try to hijack the death of this little girl for their own purposes? This case involved the murder of a little white child, and no amount of whining and moaning can make it about how lousy it is to be black in America. 
    Maybe one day black Americans will pull their heads out of their victimhood long enough to realize that it is not all about them all the time.

  • Anamika

    And were Hillary a male and McCain black and a woman, McCain would be the president or something, right? Dude.

  • http://profiles.google.com/dianna.deeley Dianna Deeley

    I wouldn’t have a different verdict – they convicted her of everything that was proved. You cannot convict on things that the prosecution did not prove.

    Morally? She killed her daughter, I’m sure.

    Her color is utterly irrelevant, and, given the same evidence, a black woman would have been acquitted of murder, manslaughter, and aggravated child abuse as well. Just…not as publicly. 

  • Joe

    Imagining Hillary as a man does not take much work. 

    Imagining John McCain as a black woman…that is a bit harder.  I need another beer. 

  • Joe

    If my cat would talk he would make more sense than Geraldo.  And my cat is stupid. 

  • Anonymous

    In spite of being a Dungbat you are correct.

  • Anonymous

    Geraldo and Casey are going to search for the real killer and in a locker somewhere in Chicago.

  • Anamika

    Nobody told me that I’m a “dungbat”.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve been demoted a couple notches from Dingbat.

  • Anamika

    Nobody told me that I’m a “dingbat” either.

  • Anonymous

    @ Anamika

    I’ve been telling you that for weeks, do try to keep up.

  • http://profiles.google.com/dianna.deeley Dianna Deeley

    No.

    The point is, were Obama not merely a bigamously conceived child of an African immigrant,  raised by his grandparents in the United States and thus able to latch onto the fantasies of the majority of this country (who desperately want to let go of race, period), some notice might have attached to his emptiness and radical associations.

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  • Anonymous

    New highly publicized trial is gearing up, that of retired baseball legend Roger Clemens lying to Congress. Will this, too, be race-centric? After all, Obama lies to Congress and the American people all the time, and he’s not on trial.
    I’m just sayin’…

  • http://www.rightviewfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com Mark Goluskin

    Personally, I can’t wait for OJ to get out of jail so he and Casey can find the real killers of their loved ones. Maybe race could have something to do with it. It can not be ruled out completely. I will just go with the theory that you had 12 people that seemed to look for a way out of convicting this gal. The real story is the people are beginning to take that “Non-judgementalism” crap to another, scary level. If Chuckie Manson and his cohorts did what they did today, he probably would NOT be in prison. That is frightening. Oh, and next time one wants to say this is better than military tribunals for known terrorists, I will just refer you to this injustice.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Well, you can bet OJ will be doing every day they can make him do.  Casey Anthony has received a huge favor, a free pass on murder, a chance to start over.  The odds are she will screw it up completely.  We haven’t heard the last of her, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the next time she’s in the news, someone else is dead either by her hand or with her help.

  • Red Dirt Republican

    If Anthony had been a black woman, she would not have been convicted-because as a black woman, she would never had been charged with murder to begin with!!

  • Anamika

    “I’ve been telling you that for weeks, do try to keep up.” 

    Re.  Adobat

    I didn’t count you, duh!

    Even if you are the Headbat of The Support Network For Dingbats And Dungbats, what makes you think your opinion is counted outside of your own batty colony?

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    My five aren’t [well...one kind of is] and they run out of the room when Jerry Rivers comes on.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    Don’t try to think. You don’t have the equipment.

  • Anamika

    But, but, McGehee gee why pick on Anamika’s thoughts, it’s not that they are insubstantial and useless, just that thoughts appear, like the spring flowers do you argue with the spring flowers?

    That reminds me of a corny joke:

    If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
    .
    .
    .

    Pilgrims.

    ***

    And what do Pilgrims bring?

    Wars, pestilence and perverted values.

    ROFL.

    ***
    June is the month that the weeds start getting out of control in the flowerbeds (unless they’ve been well mulched with substantial borders).

    That’s Chauncy “Anamika” Gardener. LMAO!

    ***

    July is the month thoughts hatch like insects from the crevices of rotten Dungbat brains.

  • Anamika

    And if McCain was not born into a notable family, he wouldn’t have likely been a noted war hero and a carpetbagger senator. If McCain was born black he wouldn’t have been in a postion to be a POTUS candidate. Same with Sarah.

    Now cut this stupid argument about Obama’s racial advantage/disadvantage. It cuts both ways. He is what he is. Get that into you dingbat heads.

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  • Jeff

    Frankly, if you’re not using weltenschauung, you don’t understand the zeitgeist.

  • Wanda HIll

    The President is where he is because it was his time! The color of his skin is not the factor. If that was the case why didn’t McCain win?? It was his time.

  • Wanda

    The evidence was clear and they didn’t want to conviect her because of her skin… But it’s ok. She has a higher authority to answer to. That little girl death won’t go unpunished! You can run but you can’t hide! Just like all the other unjustice that is in this world won’t go unpunish!

  • http://skepchick.org/ Rebecca Watson

    My cat is a friggin retard.  And if he keep scratching on the screens and on the wool afghan tribal rug, he is going to end up at the pound. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s definitely a long way from mastering the technique.

  • Anonymous

    If Yankel Rosenbaum were black and Lemrick Nelson were Jewish we wouldn’t be referring to this hate crime as a “dispute between communities”.

    If the students being assaulted in racial hate crimes daily in Philly were black and the attackers Asian it wouldn’t have taken the school district 3 years and dozens of hospital visits before taking action

  • Anonymous

    7 black kids stomp to death an elderly man “for fun” in Seattle and get 3 weeks to 24 months.  A white guy who called a black person the n word was found guilty of a hate crime and sentenced to 9 months.  Can someone tell this to Al Shartpon?

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