Today, Michael Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 17-year old Jordan Davis, a Marietta, GA resident.

For those who may have been hiding under a rock, Dunn claimed that he “feared for his life” when an argument over ‘too loud music’ in a public parking lot in Jacksonville, FL escalated into an argument. Dunn claimed self-defense and said that he fired into the vehicle because he feared Davis had a weapon, which didn’t explain why he would turn his back on an armed teenager and go to his vehicle and return with a loaded weapon. Didn’t sound like he was too “fearful” when he turned away to go get his weapon and came back with it, rocketing off shots likely meant to kill all three young Black men.

Dunn was convicted of attempted murder for shooting at the other two teens who survived the terrorist attack and today, he was convicted of murder in the first degree for causing the injury and death of young man Davis.

Don’t get too excited, Black America, about equal justice in this country just yet.

This is just one fish in the pond after literally hundreds of thousands of Black people who were savagely beaten, brutalized, lynched, and murdered by whites who even confessed to what they had done and walked away like it was nothing. It took 30 YEARS to convict the killer of Medgar Evers, and by then, Byron De La Beckwith was too old to give a damn. He spent a mere seven years in prison before dying at the age of 80 under lock and key. There have been very few others over the centuries, most notably the terrorist and racist killers of James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, TX, and 19-year old Michael Donald of Mobile, AL.

The police officers who killed Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, need to go down next, heads floating first. That might be a loose and broad indication that we Americans are finally on the way to civilly humanizing Black men in the American Justice Systems.

You can’t just go around shooting and killing unarmed Black men just because you profile and stereotype them and don’t like the way they are behaving at the moment.

George Zimmerman, your day is still coming…Wait for it.