Its because when we call for justice for these victims of race-based violence, were calling for the criminal prosecution of their killers. And criminal prosecution alone will do nothing to shift the culture of fear, hatred and oppression that allows these race-based killings to happen over and over and over again. That is because a criminal prosecution is not about justice, healing or repairing harm. And its certainly not about preventing such harm from re-occurring in the future. And theres a deep, terrible, tragic irony here -- that we have to look to the very system that was an accomplice to these killings for relief -- for some facsimile of justice. huffingtonpost/sheila-a-bedi/seeking-transformative_b_5755076.html
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