God my head hurts today

[conuly]

and I just don't know why. Finally remembered to try a painkiller.

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Comments

[stardreamer]

Re the Harrison deaths, I notice that the article carefully dances around the elephant in the room. The first victim was a black man married to a white woman. The second victim was that white woman. The third victim was another black man who had been married to a white woman, and who was embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with her. What are the odds that racism, either overt, institutionalized, or both, played no part in all this? Damn slim, if you ask me. In particular, the dismissal of the suspicious characteristics of the first death stinks to high heaven of institutionalized racism, and the treatment of the second death looks like pure bigotry against a "race traitor". Not that anyone would actually say that...

[conuly]

There is that as well.