What Role Race Play In Black Juror Summary
The author’s have a background in law, specifically he was a Special Assistant Attorney for the United States, who persecuted people with midsummeror in the District of Columbia in 1990. who mainly persecuted those with misdemeanor crimes. The author did not just write this article for the sake of writing an article, he wants to answer a specific question. “…what role race should play in black juror’s decisions to acquit defendants in criminal cases.” In this articles he hopes to get that point across that the American criminal justice system needs to change. He does not only want to tear it down because for its treatment of African-Americans but he wants to build it back up in a way that treats everyone equally. The method and/or approach
this article takes is by dividing the article into two (like how white Caucasians and African-Americans are) and put them into liberal critics, and radical critics. The main argument of this article is “…that for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to prison.” Now he gets into his four major arguments. They are; African-Americans and the betrayal of democracy, the rule of law as myth, the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws, and democratic domination.
this article takes is by dividing the article into two (like how white Caucasians and African-Americans are) and put them into liberal critics, and radical critics. The main argument of this article is “…that for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to prison.” Now he gets into his four major arguments. They are; African-Americans and the betrayal of democracy, the rule of law as myth, the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws, and democratic domination.