RE: The paradox of the justice system and our relationships with our indigenous brothers and sisters
That's terrible. how did it happen was the young man shot in the streets? Being in Australia we don't get coverage of this.
Edit: Actually just ready about it. It is a terrible tragedy a young man lost his life but not being on the jury can't make a call on his guilt, drunk teens on private property appearing to be trying to steal an atv by their own admission and carrying a rifle that they broke attempting to steal another car on another farm that day.
All lives matter but I can't tell you how I would react if I was in Gerald Stanley's position but I personally don't think we build equality by pretending innocence and absolving them from personal responsibility just because there where tragic results from their actions.
All that said I'm really glad Australia has the gun laws it does
Mistakes were made on both sides and if I gave an impression that one side or another is at fault here, I do apologize. My comments are in regards to a much deeper issue as this case is merely a symptom of a much bigger problem.
In my view, gun laws don't solve the problem but only exasperate it. The problem runs deep into the system itself and our relationship with it. The foundation of my blog from the first one I wrote back in October. Peace to you.
No i definitely get your talking bigger picture but even the pictures we use tell the narrative we want told sweet innocent looking young man next to a very sinister picture of a white man.
Its not just this post there are a few out there like that trying to condition the viewer to think a specific way about the two.
It defiantly would have been good to have an indigenous person on the jury.
Does the Canadian legal system opperate like ours are the jury randomly selected from voter registration?
Does a lawyer for either side have the right to reject some jurors on unfair bias grounds for example?
From a lot of the articles I have looked at a lot of the local tribe had decided his guilt before the trial began because they where touched by the loss.
Jury selection is the same here. The question of an all white jury is part of the accusations that are floating around regarding this case. Even if there was no indigenous peoples on the jury, there are plenty of other people of different cultures and backgrounds to draw upon. My understanding is that they were rejected.
If the jury accurately reflected Canadian demographics, there should have been at least two people on the jury who were a visible minority.
I'm curious, how do you associate 'innocence' to the young man and 'sinister' to the white man. How did you come up with that association?
How can a picture portray what our actions or inaction is all about?
Maybe its just me I'm affected by images reasonably strongly so I always have to ask myself what the images are trying to say.
First we have the young man not yet able to grow a full mustache backed by a glow that could described as a halo the image is chosen because its flattering.
Second we have the white man back lit looking up through the eyebrows, skin blemishes, and what appears to be a smirk, using the image of him in a suit also carries information the image is chosen for its unflattering aspects to conjure thoughts of a ploting mr burns and because the eyes work against him.
There are a lot of images of myself out there of myself that could be used to make me look like a thug and others that show me happy if it was me the images used would depend on how they wanted to portray me.
Image selection is one of the simplest forms of properganda