However, what about for a white man when the jurors are mostly black?
In the first instance, the whites believe the outcome was fair and balanced and in the second instance, the blacks think the outcome was fair and balanced... Doesn't this prove some kind of point?
Let's look at another situation... what if the jury was mostly liberal and the one on trial was liberal and the prosecutor was conservative... it is highly unlikely that the liberal jury would convict and find the liberal guilty... odds are the verdict would be non guilty...
Perhaps twenty years ago our legal system was unbiased but so much racial shit has taken place on both sides, that we have put ourselves in a position to protect the group with which we are associated over learning the TRUTH...
Once this type of unbalanced judicial system starts it is very difficult to stop... and it is worse, the higher up it goes... For instance, our Supreme court is now biased to the right... and is seriously considering dramatically altering our abortion laws... they did not even toy with going this route when only one vote hung in the balance to create a majority opinion.
Politics and race have no business influencing our legal system and yet that is exactly what it has done... and, in so doing overturns the concept that justice is blind.
It is doubtful that we will ever get this trust back...
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