[Shemker394]

Bright and early Monday morning I traveled downtown to answer the summons for jury duty. It had been years since I had been asked to serve and I was looking forward to it. I dressed in my best suit and armed myself with my e-reader prepared to wait out the day until I was called. After an hour I, with about 15 other people, were called to the front. I was elated that I would at least get to be questioned for the possibility to sit on a case. My hopes were dashed when all of us were summarily dismissed because we were not culturally diversified enough. After everyone else left I questioned the worker about what she meant. She stated that the random jury selection process had mistakenly chosen too many white candidates and that we were dismissed in order to make the jury pool more ethically representative of the area in which i live. This troubled me on several layers:
1. All of us 16 people who were excused were white.
2. One would think that jury selection was color blind.
3. That, after looking at the rest of the people there, I realized that I had become a minority.
4. That this seemed like racial profiling.
5. That I had been part, indirectly, to racism.
6. That the system was being corrupted in order to meet some pre-determined racial mixture.
7. That it was unfair for all of the Hispanic and black people there that their race caused them to have to serve
8. That they assumed that I could not fairly judge a case for a person of a different ethnicity

Do you guys feel this was wrong too, or should I just be happy I got of jury duty?

[Erossycuc]

JURIES TODAY ARE CAREFULLY RIGGED.

[VarenHokalos]

JUST SAYIN'........

[gennick]

OJ, Casey Anthony--------------------I rest my case.

[Navzrrqt]

Bright and early Monday morning I traveled downtown to answer the summons for jury duty. It had been years since I had been asked to serve and I was looking forward to it. I dressed in my best suit and armed myself with my e-reader prepared to wait out the day until I was called. After an hour I, with about 15 other people, were called to the front. I was elated that I would at least get to be questioned for the possibility to sit on a case. My hopes were dashed when all of us were summarily dismissed because we were not culturally diversified enough. After everyone else left I questioned the worker about what she meant. She stated that the random jury selection process had mistakenly chosen too many white candidates and that we were dismissed in order to make the jury pool more ethically representative of the area in which i live. This troubled me on several layers:
1. All of us 16 people who were excused were white.
2. One would think that jury selection was color blind.
3. That, after looking at the rest of the people there, I realized that I had become a minority.
4. That this seemed like racial profiling.
5. That I had been part, indirectly, to racism.
6. That the system was being corrupted in order to meet some pre-determined racial mixture.
7. That it was unfair for all of the Hispanic and black people there that their race caused them to have to serve
8. That they assumed that I could not fairly judge a case for a person of a different ethnicity

Do you guys feel this was wrong too, or should I just be happy I got of jury duty?

Welcome to America. I would only be disappointed if the jury pay was my sole source of income.

[Rupeviv]

Niggers want their fate to be decided by niggers which is strange since they bitched about all white juries being placed in judgement of white defendants in the 1960s South. My understanding is that trial of a jury by my peers means just that a jury composed of white people. Now if I were a monkey I may consider a niggers as my peers, but fortunately I am not a monkey.

[ptolerezort]

I absolutely think it's wrong.. dismissing you for the color of your skin carries with it an implicit insult..

Like you're not UNBIASED enough to reach conclusions based on the evidence at hand..

[Kissntell]

I absolutely think it's wrong.. dismissing you for the color of your skin carries with it an implicit insult..

Like you're not UNBIASED enough to reach conclusions based on the evidence at hand..

It's also racist and quite possibly a violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

[Dstyeglm]

If the COMMUNITY is 90% Black,

but the jury is 75% white,

...

It's another way to use statistics in order to Stack The Deck,
as Kleinbok pointed out,

and is just ANOTHER Libtard way to CREATE racists,

'cuz as JH stated,

YOU, as a certain race/color,

couldn't EVER get over it, enough to be FAIR to someone of another race/color.

The stoopid mother fuckers ARE trying to CREATE racism, folks;
don't be fooled by the "looking out my little bro" crap.

[HitAttetlyTek]

Thank you for your responses. As far as racism goes the ones who are the most oppressed now are the whites. Not only must we accept ant and all retribution, but we are not allowed to say anything about it. For to speak out immediately places any white person firmly in the camp of racist. No where is this more prevalent than with our pseudo-president. I have tried on many occasions to speak up about how the administration has either broken every campaign promise or has out right lied only to be told that I don't like him because he is black. This is not true, but there is no way to argue a negative argument like that. What troubles me the most is that many are willing to allow this administration to do anything rather than risk being labeled as racist. If you were to ask me the REAL racists are the Obama supporters.

[Enliseell]

Aptly named.....