RW Drabble 2.0.071: Jurisprudence
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Editor: “Dialogue only.”
Writer: “OK.”
“Leon, my father always said, ‘The world is not fair.’”
“I’m reminded of that every day, John. Even here, in this upscale bar, people look at me differently than you.”
“What did you think on that day?”
“Fancy words are cheap. The law is my life. That’s why I’m teaching it. But after George and those nine minutes and 29 seconds, man, that’s the jurisprudence of Jim Crow.”
“What about the rioting?”
“John, some people get to be violent, and others don’t; the violence of some is honored and pardoned. Think about if the January 6 mob had been Black.”
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