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Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

Exhaustive new study finds black jurors struck from juries 300% more than their white peers

Author:     Shaun King
Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Tue Aug 18, 2015 at 06:52 AM PDT
 Link: Exhaustive new study finds black jurors struck from juries 300% more than their white peers
Stephan:   The Emerging White Minority Trend is beginning to bear some very bitter fruit as attempts by White Rightists to skew the powers of government to maintain control of African-Americans and Hispanics comes into conflict with their growing political power. In the Red value states this is going to become a major point of contention that will shape politics in those states for years to come, but will eventually resolve because these Rightists are aging, and their number are becoming proportionately a smaller percentage of the total electorate.
Shreveport, Louisiana DA Dale Cox

Disgraced Shreveport Republican District Attorney Dale Cox

We already know that African Americans are disproportionately arrested/convicted for similar crimes committed by their white counterparts.We already know that black women are arrested up to 13 times the rate as other women.

Blacks and whites use marijuana at the same rate, but African Americans are arrested at nearly four times the rate.

Even unarmed African Americans are twice as likely to be killed by police than their unarmed white counterparts.

Now a groundbreaking new study absolutely confirms much of what we’ve believed to be true for decades about African Americans being denied a jury of their peers in districts all over the country.

In Shreveport, Louisiana, where more black men are being sent to death row than any single district in the country, district attorneys and prosecutors would routinely preemptively strike African Americans from juries at three times the rate of their white counterparts. For preemptive strikes, no rationale or reason is required.

Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from juries: They were young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, […]

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