…or howan all-white juryeventually acquitted Zimmerman for killing Martin.
Also at the event was retired judge Greg Mathis, of The Judge Mathis Show, who complained about the all-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman;
Zimmerman had an all-white female jury.
A black youth is killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, the police conduct a shoddy investigation, prosecutors put on a bumbling case, and an all-white jury in the South acquits.
George Zimmerman skirted justice with an all-white jury of his peers which consisted of all women.
A jury in Florida failed us. We have not seen a moral failure this grave since a similarly all-white jury in Simi Valley, Calif., in 1992 acquitted the four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King.
The all-white jury’s empathy for Zimmerman resulted in deliberations that were missing an important perspective and voice: those of Trayvon Martin. No fair trial would yield that result.
Nearly fifty years after the civil rights movement of the 1960s, our nation still feels that pain of racial tension when trials like Zimmerman’s take center stage on our nation’s media outlets. Our minds fill with questions: Were racial motivations a part of the killing? Were racial motivations a part ofthe all-white jury? What are we to make of an all-white jury, a Hispanic defendant, and an African-American victim?
So when an all-white jury declared George Zimmerman not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin, most white Americans agreed with the verdict, and most black Americans did not.
And now an all white jury in Sanford, Florida, has found George Zimmerman not guilty for murdering Trayvon Martin
The articles* I read at the time the jury was selected stated outright that the racial makeup of the jury was not released, but that they appeared to be white with possibly one Hispanic member. Fun fact: many questionnaires like the census break down race into two questions: Hispanic or not, and then race. So you can be Caucasian and Hispanic at the same time, for instance.
OP: On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the low end), how serious do you think a problem racism is for the average African-American living in the United States? (If you want to give different answers for geographic regions or socioeconomic status, feel free.)
It’s one of those terms certain people can’t stop using when they’re talking about racial issues. (“Race pimps” is another, and so is “thugs.”) I’m not sure why that is- maybe it’s genetic?