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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Black people rarely show up for jury duty unless they are forced to. [/quote]

I was wondering how many comments it would take before the first comment appeared that said that this actually has nothing to do with racism or race-based discrimination, and it's all black people's own fault anyway. Answer: 3. Yay, DCUM. :([/quote]

I didn't make up the fact. So wonder all you want.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411871/-Black-People-Can-t-Afford-to-Avoid-Jury-Duty#

Original article by Charles F. Coleman Jr. is a civil rights trial attorney, legal analyst and former Brooklyn, N.Y., prosecutor. He is also a professor of criminal justice at Berkeley College in New York.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/08/jury_duty_why_african_americans_can_t_afford_to_dodge_it.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content%26http://[/quote]

The point is that prosecutors are much more likely to strike potential jurors who are black than potential jurors who are white.

How does your fact relate to this point? Or are prosecutors striking potential jurors who didn't show up for jury duty?[/quote]

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