While everyone was going up about the Supreme Court’s block on President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan, the court passed another decision right under our noses. According to NBC News, the court refused to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate who alleged his jury was picked based on race.
Tony Clark was convicted on murder charges and sentenced to death in the killing of a 13-year-old boy during the robbery of a convenience store back in 2014. His appeal claimed that during the jury selection for his trial, prosecutors unlawfully sought to strike Black jurors based solely on race. That would be in direct violation of the Court’s 1986 ruling that potential jurors can’t be excluded based on race. But alas, Clark’s trial was composed of 11 white people and one Black person.
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Not sure how trying to balance the scales against previously restricted populations is racist.
previously*, in terms of going to school and getting into college, minorities are at no disadvantage that isn’t a result of economic standing. Yes, economic standing that has been decreased by being previously restricted. I think race-based AA is targetting a trait that isnt even a direct factor in getting into college.
It’s funny you think you can separate race and economics in this country given decades of anti-black exclusion. It’s like you’re viewing it all in a vacuum to support your thesis, wish is wrong at its core.
You can separate race in the context of college admissions from economics, yes. That isn’t living in a vacuum or unrealistic.