incarceration, higher dropout rates? and i think that s what we need to look out very carefully. because, so far, i have not been impressed with what s come out of the white house in this area. so the pushback, if you do look at those numbers. we look at youth unemployment, black youth unemployment is 38%. it s more than double white youth unemployment. the imprisonment rates, two-thirds of inmates are people of color, high school graduation rates. black male high school graduation is only 57%, white male, 79%, so you have all these empirical data, but it s not like that data just started happening when barack obama became president. these are things that have been the case for a generation. realistically, what should the expectations be from the african-american community for this president? in terms of political relationships, you never benefit by letting your elected leaders off the hook. even if they re in a difficult position. i don t think it s ever in your best interests to
client had a reasonable fear. well, i think that the prosecution is trying to, perhaps, avoid adding to the apparent racial reality of the situation like that, because jurors can react strongly to it. there s going to be white jurors on the case. they don t want holdout jurors that get confused, perhaps. i m speculating. but there s no doubt that when you put more emotional issues into a case, sometimes you don t know how it s going to affect the jury and sometimes you get jurors that are going to feel strongly and it could end up holding out. but in terms of what stand your ground does, which i think is a huge problem, it makes it easier, frankly, for white people, in a very lame, slim, basis of self-defense, to say, yeah, i was afraid for my life, i thought i saw a gun, i heard him say he was coming to kill me, so i had to go get my gun and defend myself. that is the kind of formula that i think is frightening, and that
shoot. and michael dunn said immediately after this shooting, i know the law of self-defense. i know that what i did is okay. it s very similar to george zimmerman, who was schooled in the law of self-defense. and i think just the knowledge that stand your ground is there, that it s part of the law, empowers some people to take a gun out and shoot, under circumstances which they feel are threatening. and kendall, i want to go back to you. the other sort of issue, just in analyzing the case, there have been criticisms of state attorney angela corey, that she overcharged in the case. she charged first-degree murder against michael, against mr. dunn, and she also charged first-degree attempted murder, but the jury wound up convicting on second-degree attempted murder. do you feel, in your opinion, feel that this case was overcharged? and when the retrial comes, what do you think about state attorney cory say she will retry on first-degree murder? i don t think it was overcharged. it w
openly, i m prejudiced against african-americans, he said, the more i get to know these people, the more prejudice id am against them, he called these young men thugs and gangsters, although they were just kids coming back from the mall. they should have been used to show hatred and ill will. that would have rebutted the self-defense claim. and they didn t do that because they were afraid to talk about race in this case, just as they were in the zimmerman case. they appeared to have not learned any lessons from the big loss they took in the zimmerman case. it s exactly that point i want to pick up on the other side of the break. so stay there. i also want to bring in the panel when we come back, and we ll take a look at some of the specific things that were said in the courtroom during this case and that s coming up next. y is a deliciously tender and crunchy kibble blend. with 20% fewer calories than purina dog chow. isn t it time you discovered the lighter side of dog chow. purina
they couldn t use that word, but they could use the word thug, so that s what they were saying in coded language. that s the same thing here. it s also too perfectly neat. in the zimmerman trial, we saw the allegation that trayvon martin, that told him that he was going to kill him and this is how he knew that his life was in jeopardy. a perfect tailor-made statement that says, at this point, i know, because this person has said it, and now allegedly jordan savvis says the exact same thing as he s get out of the car. and it really just lends itself to incredulity that people can see the situation and not convict this person of a crime on that count. skmooiblg, there s a visceral reaction that a lot of people had to this case, and a lot of it was similar to the zimmerman case, where even though michael dunn was convicted on four counts that could send him to jail to life, people had an anxiety about the case. what was your initial reaction to the case, and what would you say to peop