chasing sunsets & justice

Before George Zimmerman was arrested and charged for the murder of Trayvon Martin, many people wondered whether the outcome would have been different had the races been reversed.

The answer to that question can be found in Kennesaw, Georgia, where John McNeil, a black man, was serving a of life sentence for the shooting death of Brian Epp, an armed white man who attacked him and his son at their home.

Police released McNeil immediately after the altercation, concluding he had acted in self-defense. Adding to this determination was Georgia’s Stand Your Ground law and Castle Doctrine, a law that specifically justifies the use of deadly force in defense of one’s home. In fact, Beauchamp points out in the documentary that it’s a crime not to have a gun in Kennesaw, Georgia.

In spite of all this, nearly a year later the Cobb County prosecutor chose to charge McNeil with murder and in 2006 he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican or they look, you know, like a lot of people in South America, dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in.

“And those people, their only goal in life is to, to cause harm to the United States. So why do we want them here, either legally or illegally? When they come across the border, besides the trash that they leave behind, the drug smuggling, the killings, the beheadings. I mean, you are seeing stuff. It’s a war out there.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned… Everything is war. Me say war. That until there are no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation… Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!