Status Updates From A Lesson Before Dying

A young black man on trial for murder and all his lawyer can do to defend him is reduce him to a brainless cotton, picking slave who can never contain the capacity to plan and execute a murder. That is his defense.

“A cornered animal to strike quickly out of fear, a trait inherited from his ancestors in the deepest jungle of blackest Africa-yes, yes, that he can do but to plan? To plan, gentlemen of the jury? No, gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans.
What you see here is a thing that acts on command. A thing to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton,” a quote from his LAWYER