Accidental Murder by Fear Not Motive

The National Chronicler

By (Catriona Furugawa)

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"The Grand Jurors chosen, selected, and sworn in and from the said County of Cook, present that Bigger Thomas did rape and inflict sexual injury upon the body….strangulation by hand….smother to death and dispose of body by burning same in furnace….did with knife and hatchet sever head from body….said acts committed upon one Mary Dalton, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, against the peace and dignity of the People of the State of Illinois…" rang out loud throughout the court room before continuing with more charges against the defendant, a black man by the name of Bigger Thomas. Facing the courts, Mr. Thomas is defended by the Jewish lawyer, Mr. Boris Max.

It had been suggested in the court that only two laws govern the court room; the law of the court, and the law of fear. He has taken the claim that the media has corrupted the vision of the public by conditioning the community that is to blame for Mr. Thomas's actions.

"…reason and sense cry out…" Mr. Max pleads, referring to Mr. Thomas as a boy abused by the community, deserving reason and sense over fear and guilt, but this is all according to Mr. Max's view in trying to sway the judge's vision to be conditioned to his own. He uses subliminal language through his speech that is meant to alter the judge and audiences' views on the case of Mr. Bigger Thomas, but putting his thoughts into the peoples' heads is no less than a Red offering his unrealistic utopia.

Mr. Max has put the total blame for Mr. Thomas's crimes on the community, even blaming the Ku Klux Klan for conditioning his behavior by burning a cross wherever they see fit. He said that the community hates his black kind because they fear it, and fear it because they're powerless against them. This is all rubbish concocted; the community did not tell Mr. Thomas to smother any white girl, such as Mary Dalton; the community did not tell Mr. Thomas to put her in the furnace and chop off her head; the community also did not tell Mr. Thomas to hide what he'd done and attempt to extort money from the Dalton family by the means of a ransom note. It was his underdeveloped black mind that was driven by an undying blood lust to kill that drove him to the action.

It is only further proof that Mr. Thomas is not fit to continue living in the society when Mr. Max said, "…[he] accepted [the murder] because it made him free," giving his actions weight and making them meaningful.

This is just further proof that the judge should find it necessary to condemn Mr. Thomas to death by the electric chair despite any flowered words Mr. Max may say in Mr. Thomas's defense further into the trial. If the community is ever going to be safe from animal criminals like Mr. Bigger Thomas, the jury must see past Mr. Max's pretty words and see Mr. Thomas for what he really is; a sex driven, animalistic killer.