It just happened. There are ways that China and the USA strongly resemble each other. Both have and use the death penalty, both silence dissenting voices in the name of supposed expediency.
Life in the American South is not easy if you are non-white, not that it is easy if you are white, actually, because discrimination and the longterm legacy of slavery and racial injustice affects everyone. Living with fear, shame, and guilt, living alongside poverty and racism is not easy for anyone with a conscious mind. It's not about being white, it's not about being black, it's not about being any particular ethnic group;it's about being an individual who yearns for a society that is just and democratic.
The execution of Troy Davis, the many who sit on death row, the numerous wrongful convictions, the accepted level of violence and poverty affects every American, and non-American, really.
Oh, humanity...Troy Davis, rest in peace.
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Your writing is always so intelligent and elegant. Thank you.
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