*Justice prevailed in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers. In America, that’s a shock.*

I will not excoriate the defense attorneys for "playing the race card", since it is their responsibility to try to obtain an acquittal. What is significant is that they believed that appealing to racism was the way to win. We all know that it sometimes does win, and that reflects the fact that racism continues to be powerful and harmful in the US.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.