“Ladies & Gentlemen of the jury I shall be brief, but I would like to use my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a simple one, it is not as simple as black & white. ‘Honest Iago’ this means a great deal. A judge may be honest but people do not refer to him as ‘honest judge’, Iago must have been a great man and the one thing that destroyed this great man may sound small but deep in every mans heart it is everything, reputation. Reputation as has been quoted many times during this case think of Brabantio when the story began he was a friend of Othello’s until this black man stole his daughter. But why did this matter to him? Because Othello was a black man. Think of Cassio after he was sacked, of how he ranted on and on about his reputation. In this land reputation is everything to a man.
