amanda knox - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T14:45:12Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/amanda+knoxAmanda Knox and Troy Davishttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/amanda-knox-and-troy-davis2011-10-04T04:49:18.000Z2011-10-04T04:49:18.000ZTheBlackList Newshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackListNews<div><p>Dear Editor: <br /> <br /> Let us acknowledge that if we fairly scrutinize the Troy Davis and Amanda <br /> Knox cases, we would see an example of present-day racism. <br /> <br /> Knox’s case and family receive 24-hour-a-day coverage with the obvious <br /> assumption that she is innocent and a victim of a miscarriage of justice. <br /> Her parents have been so courted and interviewed by the mainstream (no longer <br /> news) anchors that they are treated as friends and are called by their first <br /> names. <br /> <br /> Conversely, these media anchors probably do not know, or care, that Troy <br /> Davis has a sister, family, friends, and international support who should <br /> have been given the same opportunity to fight his case in the same “unbiased, <br /> free, and liberal” media. <br /> <br /> The anchors stress that there is no DNA evidence to connect Knox to the <br /> murder and that the witnesses were not credible or reliable. The same is <br /> true of the Troy Davis case, yet the media did not drum these facts about his <br /> case to the people of the United States. <br /> <br /> The anchors explained the Italian court system in detail to the American <br /> public, outlining ways Knox could benefit in her appeal under the Italian <br /> system of jurisprudence. Troy Davis’s appeal did not benefit him because the <br /> five people (Georgia’s Pardon/Parole Board) who could have stopped his <br /> execution worked for the State of Georgia against him. The unfairness of the <br /> criminal, criminal injustice system<br /> of the United States was never explained in detail as it pertains to the Troy <br /> Davis execution. <br /> <br /> Troy Davis’s state lynching was a result of police and judicial coercion, <br /> threats, and abuse of witnesses; the state’s withholding or tampering with <br /> evidence which would have caused the jury to doubt his alleged guilt (later, <br /> many of the jurors did change their minds); and<br /> the state’s quest to kill any black man for the death of a white police<br /> officer. <br /> <br /> Troy Davis and his followers did not have a chance. Since the 1500s, poor <br /> black men and their families have been trapped and tortured in an unfair <br /> system of laws, written and approved (until very recently) by white males. <br /> The racism in the corporate media and the criminal, criminal injustice system <br /> of the United States is pervasive and obvious. We should work to change both <br /> systems to protect people and preserve life, and to fix what the Founding <br /> Fathers started centuries ago. <br /> <br /> Charlotte N.<br /> Harris, Philadelphia </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>From</strong>: <a target="_blank" href="http://yahoo.com">Runoko Rashidi</a> </li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/viewmod/theblacklist/40919bd7ba3d2ef16ec8dd6f3acbc703/msg00000.html">AMANDA KNOW AND TROY DAVIS</a></b>, <em>Runoko Rashidi, 10/03/2011</em></li></ul><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>