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| Oscar Pistorius not guilty of murdering his girlfriend in cold blood. This is just another example of white male supremacy |
It has been some time since I last posted on this blog. This is mainly due to the fact that I have been incredibly busy and have not had much time to put my thoughts and frustrations to writing. However as much has been happing that has really frustrated me such as the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson by a racist white male cop and the murderer Oscar Pistorius been found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend. I figured it is time to start trying to make time.
Both of these incidents reek of white male supremacy. Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in cold blood. And what happens? He is declared not guilty of culpable homicide.
Of course this should come as no surprise, after all he is a white Afrikaner male. This shows us that South Africa is still very much under the control of white Afrikaner males while women of all colours and black people must live in fear and as second class citizens in relation to white males and their supremacy.
If we can learn anything from this situation we must learn that white male supremacy is still very much alive, it is causing extreme suffering to women and people of colour. It is a virus polluting our society that needs to be stopped.
The following is an article about Pistorius from Vanity Fair
Oscar Pistorius Found Not Guilty of Murder
Update (Friday, 8:20 A.M.): Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled Oscar Pistorius not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide in the death of Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutors were disappointed, but are waiting for sentencing to decide whether to appeal the verdict, the Associated Press reported Friday. The conviction comes with a maximum sentence of 15 years, and sentencing will begin on October 13.
The original article continues below.
A South African judge ruled Oscar Pistorius not guilty of premeditated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, though a manslaughter conviction remains possible.
As Judge Thokozile Masipa read her statement, Pistorius sat on a wooden bench and wept. Photos show liquid dripping from a sobbing Pistorius’s face.
Pistorius, an Olympic athlete, has not disputed that he shot Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013, but says he had mistaken her for an intruder. The prosecution argued otherwise, and presented witnesses who claimed they heard Steenkamp scream. Judge Masipa claimed such witnesses appeared confused in their understanding of the events, and also dismissed text messages both sides of the case entered as evidence of either tension or affection between the two.
“The accused therefore cannot be found guilty of [premeditated murder] . . . that however is not the end of the matter as culpable homicide is a competent verdict,” Masipa said. She also called Pistorius an “evasive” witness.
At his testimony in April, Pistorius directly addressed Steenkamp’s family, telling them that he “can promise them” that the 29-year-old model “felt loved.”
“I thought that a burglar had entered my home,” Pistorious said. “Initially I froze. I didn’t know what to do. The first thing that ran through my mind is that I needed to protect myself, that I needed to protect Reeva and I.”
It remains to be seen if Pistorius will be found guilty of manslaughter.
