Book Review: Just Mercy

I'm grateful to have found this book in Black History Month. I've read sentences like "black people have been historically and systematically oppressed" in articles, tweets and news but I don't think I was ever able to fully grasp what that looked like for them. I still cannot grasp it, but I think I have a better idea now.

Walter, a black man in Alabama was put on the row for the murder of a woman he never met. He spent 6 years of his life anticipating death for a case that had no evidence, no eyewitness, no proof. Just the flimsy statement of a white man. Walter was finally released in 1993. When I think about it, that's not too long ago at all. Not much has changed since then. I read the same stories in this book that I read during the BLM protests last year. People are still being innocently murdered and the state is still complicit. I now understand the rage black people feel.

If I was on the fence about capital punishment before, I know I am vehemently against it now. This book tells you that sometimes all people need is just mercy. I am convinced.

10/10, cannot recommend it enough.