Pointing Fingers on Human Rights Abuses
Of course he is only a black man and it is Georgia.
Of course he is only a black man and it is Georgia.
And if that makes your Georgians angry, you can forget about e-mailing me and pick up your phone. Take a glance at your watch. You have until 7pm tomorrow (July 17). Just as Entertainment Tonight comes on WTVQ, the state of Georgia will be putting to death an inarguably innocent man.
Troy Davis is that man. At the Burger King where he had stopped, late one night, a white security guard was shot and killed in the parking lot. Everyone took off, which is what you do when you’re black and a white cop is shot. That's not particular to Savannah, it happens in Chicago, Detroit and Burlington, Iowa.
That Davis was not the shooter won’t keep him from dying for it.
The Georgia state Board of Pardons and Paroles may commute Davis’s sentence. After eighteen years, they’re meeting today, Monday--the Board has its own sense of drama. Troy is, in his words, “just trying to hold myself together.” The o…