Mark Wahlberg Doesn't Deserve Pardon

Jeff Yang: Why Mark Wahlberg Doesn't Deserve Pardon
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 10: Actor Mark Wahlberg speaks onstage at the screening of 'The Gambler' during the AFI FEST 2014 presented by Audi at Dolby Theatre on November 10, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 10: Actor Mark Wahlberg speaks onstage at the screening of 'The Gambler' during the AFI FEST 2014 presented by Audi at Dolby Theatre on November 10, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)

Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. The list of names of black men killed by white men who have subsequently gone unpunished -- and in the case of Brown and Garner, untried -- continues to grow. In each of these cases, an ugly theme has been raised in defense of the perpetrators: The victims should have known better.

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