Certainly, MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham was happy by the end result of the trial of the lads charged within the loss of life of Ahmaud Arbery. However the focus of her feedback on MSNBC on Wednesday night time leaves you questioning whether or not she noticed the verdicts as complicating her activity of portray america as irretrievably racist. You’ll be able to’t ever really feel higher about it.
Interviewed by visitor host Jonathan Capehart on The eleventh Hour, Cunningham by no means as soon as talked about {that a} just about all-white jury in a Deep South state had convicted all three defendants of homicide. As an alternative, Cunningham downplayed the verdicts as “actually the very least we’re owed.”
Cunningham concentrated as a substitute on every little thing she sees as fallacious with America. Thus, she decried the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson for what she referred to as the “homicide” of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This regardless of the Justice Division run by Eric Holder, Obama’s Legal professional Normal, having cleared Wilson, discovering “no credible proof that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was making an attempt to give up or was in any other case not posing a menace.”
Obama/Holder: white supremacist racists, too?
Capehart additionally requested Cunningham to touch upon the column by Charles Blow of the New York Occasions—who referred to as Kyle Rittenhouse a “assassin” regardless of his acquittal on all prices—through which he claimed that there are different Rittenhouses on the market. Cunningham fervently agreed, saying:
“It’s a certain proven fact that there are different Kyle Rittenhouses on the market. And we all know that they are on the market because lots of their dad and mom are marching into faculty board conferences as we converse making an attempt to be sure that the historical past of this nation isn’t taught.”
In different phrases, dad and mom who object to their youngsters being indoctrinated with Vital Race Principle are racists who’re elevating tomorrow’s Rittenhouses.
Chalk this one up beneath “no occasion of justice goes unpunished.” Telling America that it doesn’t matter what occurs, the nation stays essentially evil, is not any method to win hearts and minds — or elections.
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This is the transcript.
MSNBC
The Final Phrase
11/24/21
10:55 pm ETJONATHAN CAPEHART: Becoming a member of me now could be veteran social-justice activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham, a former member of President Obama’s twenty first Century Policing Process Drive.
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BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM: I am eager about the non-conviction of Darren Wilson for the homicide of Mike Brown in Ferguson in 2014. There is a lengthy sample, a protracted thread right here, of not solely this prison authorized system letting individuals off the hook for doing the job that too typically it needs to have the ability to do itself, of controlling and reining in black individuals and black freedom, however I am additionally considering of the actual thread that then takes these people and lionizes them, that they need to create one other statute to face at that altar of white supremacy that they’ll worship and study from.
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CAPEHART: You realize, Brittany, New York Occasions columnist Charles Blow writes, “the good menace, and actual chance, is that there are different Rittenhouses on the market—younger males who watched this verdict and noticed how the suitable has embraced and celebrated a assassin, and now need to comply with his lead.” Brittany, how can our nation reply to white vigilantes being impressed by the Rittenhouse acquittal?
CUNNINGHAM: Properly, I believe that Charles Blow is spot on, and the reality of the matter is, it is not possible or potential. It’s a certain proven fact that there are different Kyle Rittenhouses on the market. And we all know that they are on the market as a result of lots of their dad and mom are marching into faculty board conferences as we converse, making an attempt to be sure that the historical past of this nation isn’t taught.
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The responsible verdicts that we noticed within the Arbery homicide trial at present, that was actually the very least that we’re owed —
CAPEHART: — Proper.
CUNNINGHAM: — and you know the way a lot it took for us to even get a semblance of that type of accountability. So this work goes to proceed.