What We Miss When We Say ‘Accountability, not Justice'
| dc.contributor.author | Hamilton, Brian David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-10T20:39:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-10T20:39:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05-10 | |
| dc.description | This article originally appeared on May 10, 2021, in Sojourners, https://sojo.net/. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In the wake of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction a couple of weeks ago, my social media lit up with a new progressive talking point: The verdict was “accountability, not justice.” The refrain, which quickly became a meme, crystallized into a new orthodoxy by the time the sun went down. Within days, I had heard it from countless pundits, from members of Congress, from the American Civil Liberties Union. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hamilton, Brian David. “What We Miss When We Say ‘Accountability, Not Justice.’” Sojourners, 10 May 2021, https://sojo.net/articles/what-we-miss-when-we-say-accountability-not-justice. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://sojo.net/articles/what-we-miss-when-we-say-accountability-not-justice | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Sojourners | en_US |
| dc.subject | Accountability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Racial justice | en_US |
| dc.subject | Liability (Law) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Justice | en_US |
| dc.title | What We Miss When We Say ‘Accountability, not Justice' | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |