Book Reflections: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
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The crimes committed against the Osage people described in this book are truly horrifying. What is even more infuriating is that most of the perpetrators never received the punishment they deserved, and many truths have been buried by history, beyond any possibility of accountability.
What this book made me realize is that if justice is to be upheld and evil truly confronted, procedural justice alone is far from enough. When an entire system, from witnesses to jurors to judges, is complicit, there can be no real justice at all.
Finishing this book on the eve of the New Year left me feeling deeply unsettled and depressed :(