Court jesters in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• Michael and Janet Jackson continue their court fight to get back items that were slated for auction. The stuff includes Janet’s marriage certificate to singer James DeBarge and Jacko’s collection of Three Stooges photos. Which technically brings the number of stooges involved in this scenario to six.
• The jury is out on the decision to seat an all-White jury for a Louisiana trial with racial overtones. The case involves a group of Black students who allegedly beat a White classmate. “I’m sure I can get a fair trial,” said one defense lawyer. “You can’t tell me there aren’t six people in this town who won’t listen fairly and do the right thing. I think people have a tendency to do the right thing.” They say justice is blind, but this lawyer appears to be deaf and dumb too.
• A recent study showed Whites may be overrepresented in Manhattan jury pools, while Hispanics are the most underrepresented group. The writer of the study remarked, “Even if it’s difficult to have a mathematical representation for every trial, we shouldn’t have a system where there’s effectively no representation.” Somebody send that guy to Louisiana.
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