Black parents across America are surprised by the Michael Dunn verdict handed down this weekend. Dunn, a White 47-year old man, was on trial for shooting into a car full of teenagers in Jacksonville, FL after an argument over loud music. During the shooting, 17-year old Jordan Davis was killed.
Although found guilty on multiples counts of attempted murder, a mistrial was declared on the count of first-degree murder. Although many comparisons can be made, this case is a far cry from the Zimmerman trial where he was acquitted for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Like Zimmerman, Dunn claims that he thought his life was in danger when he fired the shots, saying that he thought he saw a gun. His attorneys argued self-defense during the trial. No gun was found on the victim.
With emotions still running high from the Martin case, it is puzzling to many how a jury did not convict Dunn of first-degree murder. Despite this fact, however, Dunn faces up to 60 years in prison for the attempted murder charges.
As an African American parent, how do you feel about the Dunn verdict? What are you teaching your kids (especially boys) about life in America?
With the recent events occurring with this trail and Zimmerman trail. Black men old and young must understand that although you might be a husband and not a baby daddy – well educated and not a thug – law abiding citizen – other races will still look at you as a thug/drug dealer/baby daddy/woman abuser because large percent black men in our race fall into that category. As black women, I must admit that because of the percentage of good black men verses the bad ones I have encountered through elementary school, high school, college, and watching women in my family, friends, associates dealing with a lot of these black men, the bad black men outweighed the good. The solution to a lot of these problems in our community is to first put all inner city unmarried black women on a user friendly type of birth control, that last five years that is free, because they haven’t developed a male’s birth control yet. This birth control should be given out in all inner city schools so these young people will stop having all these babies they can’t mentally support or financially support. More mentoring is needed for these young black inner city young men who are mentally lost and think guns and violence is the only way to live. Provide more field trips to the suburbs so more inner city blacks kids can see that well established blacks do live in these areas, they have college degrees, they didn’t have children out of wedlock and then maybe these kids can actually see what a stable home looks like and not the inner city or projects day to day living,
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