walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[Jimbone]

I don't need a photo collage, Jim. I remember it all. Some of the jurors do as well. They could have avoid being selected as jurors if they were afraid of what happened in the past or afraid of what some predict might happen in the future.

The final jurors claim that they are able to disregard those factors and are not afraid. I don't believe that you know better how they think and feel than they themselves.

The public outcry and demonstrations in regard to Zimmerman not being charged, the words of Sharpton and Jackson a year a half ago, the passionate opinions for and against Zimmerman... none of it would affect my ability to sit on the jury and respect the sworn oath.

I would be perfectly able not to consider those previous external factors nor to try to predict future public reaction as a consideration in verdict deliberation.

I am not exceptional. I have no problem believing that the six women who made it on to the jury can do the same, despite your insistence otherwise.

I disagree with your notion that if the jury delivers a Manslaughter conviction, it will be because they are afraid of public backlash, but I'll expect to hear that tune over and over again if Manslaughter is the verdict.

If the jury acquits, no need to pose another theory proclaiming to read their minds and attempting to explain how your theory today was simply misunderstood.

I already get where you're coming from. I find your position to be presumptuous and unreasonable. Differences of opinion, that's all.

The collage was for Duchess... I think she said earlier that she didn't recall enormous racial pressure. I wanted to remind her that there was.

You've watched juries over and over again make contrary decisions to what you believe was right. All I am doing is pointing out that these people aren't perfect, that they are operating under tremendous pressure, and I am giving my own opinion on how I think it will play out.

For that I am unreasonable, presumptuous, and closed minded (yeah, I got the slight from your 'open minded' comment). Your insistence that the jury will not be affected is just as unreasonable and closed minded to me.

I don't care that you disagree with my notion, but the rejection of it as even being a possibility seems just as unreasonable to me. It's not as if I am postulating something crazy... but you act as if you can't even entertain it as something that may happen.

Interesting that tiki and I share a similar - if not same - opinion, but she doesn't get the same treatment.