Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory
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Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory
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The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory.
A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to recieve some sense of justice, when Black people are not incarcerated into modern-day slavery, or murdered by police in modern-day lynchings. As stated by the Movement for Black Lives organization, “A conviction is not justice; our communities deserve more.”