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Eugene F. Rivers 3d

If George Zimmerman were black . . .

By Eugene F. Rivers 3d

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  April 28, 2012

Black leaders rightly demanded justice after Martin, a black teenager, was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer whose parents are white and Hispanic. But what if Martin’s assailant had been black? What if this incident had been just another “routine” Denzel-smoked-Rahim black-on-black homicide? How might black leadership’s response have been different?

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