David Leonhardt, who appears from his thumbnail photo to be white, offers an interesting argument that had the prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery case, Linda Dunikoski, highlighted the defendants’ evident racism, she might have lost the case, in which three white men were convicted of pursuing and killing a Black man in a predominantly white neighborhood, by generating a backlash from a largely white jury whose “[c]onservative jurors would be reminded that they often disagree with allegations of racism.”[1] Read more
- [1]David Leonhardt to The Morning list, “Fighting racism, quietly,” New York Times, November 30, 2021, https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20211130&instance_id=46576&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN®i_id=97793637&segment_id=75658&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2Faf13e2f1-57a8-5e62-9c70-c5fa1362648f&user_id=087ade925ce15f15a24824418c4789ce↩