A Few More Thoughts About Murder in South Georgia

We keep referring to it as the Arbery murder case, and not the McMichaels murder. Because we fixate on Blackness in crime.

I spent a few days in Brunswick, Ga. covering jury selection in the trial of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Boddie in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. So, why the hell have I driven four hours to south Georgia, within commuting distance of the human yeast infection that is Jacksonville, to cover this trial? What does this have to do with th…