Trayvon Martin and categories
The writer is aware of the propensity for categories. She has different names for the ways she spends her time and fills in spreadsheets where these types of work are duly recorded. She knows and employs known categories for food, weather, terrain, books, and people. When the furor over the Trayvon Martin case erupted, she figured that one’s reaction to it would vary depending on the group one belonged to. African-Americans would be certain that Martin was deliberately murdered for being black, as has happened so much in their history in this country, and would call for justice to be...
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