Blog#4

1. Find a news story from last 2 years that exemplifies a situation

that Bigger faced.

2. Include the link.

3. Explain the connection in a thorough paragraph.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/12/10/INC81LA6B5.DTL
Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted for shooting a white cop on duty. He was tried and put on death row. After several appeals, the court change the sentence to life imprisonment without parole. The article said four eyewitnesses testified against Abu-Jamal because he is black. Therefore, Abu-Jamal also face racism like Bigger. Bigger was accused of being a rapist because he killed a white girl. Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death because of the idea that a black man killed a white cop and there was no witness to testify for him. The cop's wife approved of the death sentence of Abu-Jamal because he is black. If the murderer of her husband is white, she might not even campaign insisting on the death sentence. She might just wept.