New York, NY - Here at Our News Now we have not been bringing you the play-by-play, useless guess after useless guess hysteria of the Casey Anthony trial.  Since the circus started a few weeks ago it was clear there was an over abundance of coverage that you didn't need to come here for it.

Just since her trial started, a few dozen black mothers were arrested for having a role in the death of their children, but of course you didn't hear about those on the same networks that brought you the Casey Anthony show.  Maybe a hundred parents of color were arrested for causing their children harm and maybe thousands lost custody of their kids for neglect or any item on a list of reasons their state felt they were doing lousy jobs as parents.  But the Casey Anthony show was the main attraction on America's TV screens.

As a parent it is easy to understand the base attraction to the story.  Why would any mother murder their own child?  It is the question that give you chills just in the asking of it.

She got a jury of her peers so I knew they too would be looking for a nice neat package from prosecutors. What evidence could they have to best this attractive demur woman that could prove the unthinkable?

As the defense went on the offensive, I was reminded of the American mind in that the jury, like the rest of society, has been saturated with Law & Order CSI and through the decades with a host of great justice drama shows that make everything seem black and white (no pun intended).  As I heard clips of Jose Baez giving the jurors and the TV audience the razzle dazzle of mis-direction, I knew this was not the slam dunk even I thought it should have been.

The image of her sitting at that table or holding a tissue to her nose was plastered on almost all the entertainment mags. Her face even besting that other royal media festival across the pond.  You know the wedding of that kid who might one day be a king.

When I got a text of the verdict that read not guilty for murder, I was not at all shocked.

But from now on, like Klaus von Bulow before her, (a man who was aquitted of attempting to kill his rich wife) the next time a woman of color steps into the public spot light for the same crime, I will think of the justice served in the Casey Anthony case.  I will wonder if that woman will be afforded the same I-95 leighway that was afforded to this woman who may have killed her kid. 

Could you or I have heard those not guilty words with the same evidence?  I doubt it.  Justice may be blind but look at the statue...she is a white woman.