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Recent court decisions make a complete mockery of the US justice system. 

Examples: Chris Belter, pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of four teenage girls will avoid prison, after receiving an extraordinarily light sentence that’s drawn international condemnation. He received eight months’ probation and no jail time after he pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree rape and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse. Belter is white and comes from a rich white privileged family. 

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the majority all-white jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all five counts for fatally shooting two people and wounding a third last year during protests sparked by the police shooting that left Jacob Blake paralyzed. The judge showed blatant bias in favor of Rittenhouse throughout the trial. He brandished an AR 15 rifle purchased illegally, - a federal offence. 

Three White men -- Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor Bryan Jr. -- face charges including malice murder and felony murder in the death of Arbury, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased by the trio on February 23, 2020, in the Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia. One can only wonder what might have happened if the 3 assailants were black chasing a white unarmed jogger! 

Emory University professor Carol Anderson traces back our messianic love of guns, the passage of the second amendment, to white peoples fear of black people. Anderson writes there was this massive fear about these slave revolts, Black people demanding their freedom, being willing to have an uprising to gain their freedom,” says Anderson. “What I saw was that it wasn’t about guns. It was about the fear of Black people. Sadly, not much has changed.