Demonizing Black victims is an old racist trope that didn't work for defense attorneys this time
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The trial of the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery came to an end Wednesday after weeks mirroring a long history of court cases where racism and the dehumanization of Black victims were pervasive.
Emmett Till. Jordan Davis. Trayvon Martin. Botham Jean. George Floyd -- all of them Black, all of them victims, just as Arbery was.
Arbery's family can now feel a sense of justice after Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. were convicted on Wednesday, but that outcome is a rare exception to the rule.
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