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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/sierra-club-calls-out-founder-john-muir-for-racist-views by Brian Melley 22/7/20 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/sierra-club-calls-out-founder-john-muir-for-racist-views by Brian Melley 22/7/20 PBS NEWS] | ||
Executive Director Michael Brune said Wednesday that it was “time to take down some of our own monuments” as statues of Confederate officers and colonists are toppled in a reckoning with the nation’s racist history following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. | Executive Director Michael Brune said Wednesday that it was “time to take down some of our own monuments” as statues of Confederate officers and colonists are toppled in a reckoning with the nation’s racist history following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. | ||
=====Illegal Discrimination in Jury Selection===== | |||
[https://eji.org/report/race-and-the-jury/ by Race and the Jury] | |||
In too many communities, the fairness, reliability, and integrity of the legal system have been compromised by clear evidence of racial bias in the selection of juries.1 Unrepresentative juries not only exclude and marginalize communities of color, they also produce wrongful convictions and unfair sentences that disproportionately burden Black people and people of color. Our failure to remedy this longstanding problem of racial bias imperils the legitimacy of the U.S. legal system. | |||
