No, I'm not missing anything.
I didn't say the case was about race.
I'm not talking about the CASE.
I'm talking about the VERDICT. I'm asking a hypothetical question.
And it's an important question. I know you don't this to be an issue, but it is an issue. And maybe the issue isn't even one of race, per se. It might be one of a political divide. As soon as the case became political the Rittenhouse probably benefited from this. I haven't paid much attention to this, but what I have seen makes me wonder how this verdict cannot be political.
I can't see how Rittenhouse got off. He turns up at a place with guns, and he's running the streets with guns and he kills some people. He's claiming self defense, but had he been a Democrat "hero" rather than a Republican "hero", had he been at this place for the other side, had he killed Rittenhouse in the same circumstances then you'd have been all over him.
But the issue here is about race, it's about politics, it's about so many things intertwined, because the US is going mental. Race is an issue when it comes to such things because the right has spent the last 200 something years MAKING IT ALL ABOUT RACE.
You wonder why race comes up in a country with 1/3rd history of slavery, 1/3rd history of segregation and the other third dealing with the consequences of racism, of black people being far more likely to be in poverty, of white people making laws to keep black people "in their place".