Finally justice prevailed as the murderers of Ahmaoud Arbery are found guilty today.  If there was no conviction in this case, I think there would have been riots again in American cities.  At least this will keep things quiet for this Thanksgiving and give hope that racial vigilantism will not be tolerated in the future.

Of course, this case had overwhelming evidence including videotape from one of the perpetrators.  So this may not stop this type of killings in the future.  Still, it is a victory because in the past even a videotape was not enough, starting with the Rodney King case.  It is also a good sign that an eleven White and one Black jury in the South convicted three White men in this case.  It will be a better sign in the future if this type of conviction is not news.  It will be the best sign if this type of crime does not occur in our country.  We can hope, can't we?

 So this is American justice.  Just as in the Trevon Martin case, a vigilante can kill without consequences.  Rittenhouse is found not guilty on all three charges.  I can understand to a certain degree about the three homicide charges.  But the two regarding endangering safety?  You take a machine gun, crosses state lines, confront protesters who are unarmed, you kill two people and wounded a third, and you are not guilty of endangering safety?  If Rittenhouse had killed in hand to hand combat, maybe he was innocent.  But people like him would not go into a possible dangerous situation without weapons to kill, would they?

Although the victims in this case were white, race, I believe play a part in this verdict.  If a Black guy shows up at a KKK rally with an AK47, argues with the people at the rally and then shoots a few of them, would a jury believe this all self defense.  Certainly a Black man among racists can claim he is fearful for his safety.  But would a white jury clear him in that case?  I don’t think so.  Vigilante privilege is only for certain people in this country.

 Now that the democrats have lost the governor’s race in Virginia, it looks like a big hill to climb for the midterm next year and even 2024.  I am not sure how the democrats are going to reverse this.  I can understand that the country is not happy with Biden’s performance so far.  But the idea that you vote for someone who doesn’t denounce Trump strikes me as crazy.  You can’t do a worse job than letting 700,000 Americans die under your watch when most of them could have been avoided.  How can you vote for a party that endorse attacking our Capitol?

The exit poll on Tuesday show that a big majority of republicans believe that the election that night will have fraud and that the results may not be accurate.  Now that they have won, will the GOP call for investigation into the fraud that they believed would occur?