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BronxBoy

(2,286 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:00 PM Jul 2013

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Know when we'll be in a truly post racial America?.....

It's when an all Black jury convicts a White man in a nationally visible, controversial trial

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Know when we'll be in a truly post racial America?..... (Original Post) BronxBoy Jul 2013 OP

anyone who denies the poor optics of an all white jury acquitting a white guy for Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #1

Where that they were smoking dope, their would have been a conviction!-NT Anansi1171 Jul 2013 #2

LOL..... n/t BronxBoy Jul 2013 #4

And remember.... BronxBoy Jul 2013 #3

Not quite NoGOPZone Jul 2013 #5

Or when those "events" BronxBoy Jul 2013 #6

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)

1. anyone who denies the poor optics of an all white jury acquitting a white guy for

Reply to BronxBoy (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:02 PM

Jul 2013

murdering a black guy is smoking dope or something.

Anansi1171

(793 posts)

2. Where that they were smoking dope, their would have been a conviction!-NT

Reply to Pretzel_Warrior (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:04 PM

Jul 2013

BronxBoy

(2,286 posts)

4. LOL..... n/t

Reply to Anansi1171 (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:08 PM

Jul 2013

BronxBoy

(2,286 posts)

3. And remember....

Reply to Pretzel_Warrior (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:07 PM

Jul 2013

in several high profile cases in which race played a major factor and the defendant was White, "circumstances" always seemed to pop up where the case was moved to an area where the jury pool looked more like the defendants than the victims. Rodney King and Amadou Diallo come instantly to mind

NoGOPZone

(2,971 posts)

5. Not quite

Reply to BronxBoy (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:09 PM

Jul 2013

we'll be a post racial society when such an event is not referenced in every Internet discussion for the next fifty years.

BronxBoy

(2,286 posts)

6. Or when those "events"

Reply to NoGOPZone (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:10 PM

Jul 2013

don't occur with any regularity at all.

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