When Ed Buck Goes on Trial, So Does White Privilege
26-year-old Gemmel Moore and one for the death of 55-year-old Timothy Dean in 2019. Your garden variety middle-aged white gay man, Buck was privileged and entitled with the “complexion for protection.” A West Hollywood City Hall gadfly with a checkbook he wasn’t afraid to use, aside from giving the max allowed to political candidates, Buck’s claim to fame was championing a local ban on the sale of fur apparel.A real Jekyll and Hyde, Buck was also that neighbor who everyone noticed had a considerable amount of Black men going in and out of his apartment at all hours of the day and night.
It was soon discovered after the death of Moore that Buck was known in certain circles as the white man in West Hollywood who had a Tuskegee Experiment-like.
