Andre Perry discusses the Trayvon Martin shooting and our society.
In his classic essay titled “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell writes of a colonial, sub-divisional police officer’s experience in twentieth century Burma. The narrator, who we presume to be Orwell, reflects on the officer’s pursuit of a rampaging elephant in heat that was ravaging the fragile village that stood in the way of the humungous beast’s unpredictable path. The impassioned elephant even killed a man who could not dodge the animal’s urges.
