While the world watched for a hour as Lebron decided to leave for Miami, the news was just trickling in at the reaction to the Oscar Grant murder trial. The net had it’s forums clogged with comments, some angry, all somber, many waiting for riots to begin. It should in contrast for me to my past memories of these now annual spectacles, though in a way each seemed to fade into insignificance a little farther. The country was jolted by the Rodney King trails, but then that was back when the Cosby’s were American’s family. Diallo’s murder had reverbs across all corners of black society, but there seemed even thing a sense of detactment as far as the rest of society was considered. And now, even the riots seems boring from the outside, with business perparing for them as they would a weather event, the nation more interested in a hour long commercial for a basketball player.
It has to leave you wondering, for all the work and organization that went into the push for a fair accounting of Oscar Grant’s death, were does the results leave us? Where does it leave the issue of police brutality? Where does it leave the idea of black political action?
Here is a list of articles dealing with the response to Oscar Grant and reaction to that response. Your own comments are welcome as well.
In the Aftermath of the Oscar Grant Verdict: What Now? By Lynette Holloway of the Root
BART Shooting — Peeling Back the Layers to the Truth By Rich Silverstein of huffpost
Youth Radio’s Oscar Grant Coverage
Oscar Grant Trial in the News by Taylor Friedman of Sfweekly
Anger Without Violence as LA Reacts to Verdict in Grant Case by Samuel Richards of the La Watts times