To those all those who say that the United States is no longer a racist society, I plead to you to consider this case with an open mind.
What a sad tale of a youth (and maybe a life, though maybe not, given the courage of the young man) destroyed.
The punchline of the story that you must read:
The Supreme Court says it couldn't free him because the state legislature decreed the new law didn't apply to old cases, even though this case was the entire reason the new law was passed.
And the vote on the Supreme Court:
The first time the Supreme Court voted on Genarlow's case, it was 4-3. The four judges who voted against the black teen were white. The three judges who voted for him were black.
Read the story and do what you can.
(Special wanker of the decade goes out to David McDade and, especially, Eddie Barker, prosecutors (burn in hell)).
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