
by Dr. Boyce Watkins – Scholarship in Action
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World
This week, we released the results of a Your Black World Survey, in which it was determined that the majority of black respondents (56.9 percent) felt that President Obama should have spoken up on behalf of the late Troy Davis. Many throughout the world, including former FBI Director William Sessions and former President Jimmy Carter, felt the execution to be unjust. President Obama could have called for a federal investigation into the execution, which would have kept Davis alive to this day. Instead, he allowed America to humiliate itself on the world stage by killing a citizen who likely did not commit the crime for which he was being put to death.