Some people wonder if we live in a post-racial country. Here is another nail in the coffin that we do not. It is a given that African-Americans do not excercise our constitutional right to vote en masse. Yet when we do excercise our constitutional right to stand in judgment of another we are categorically denied for vague reasons. it is not a surprise that racially diverse juries make fewer factual errors, deliberate longer, and are more inclusive in viewpoints than all white juries. Isn’t that the spirit of what the “founding fathers” of this country wanted in the first place?

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries – NYTimes.com.