Just so people don’t lose sight of how recent this decision is: the Challenger space shuttle blew up on live television before Black people had a tool to avoid being excluded from criminal juries in America. Barack Obama, the first Black president, was twenty-four years old before Black people had a reasonable chance of getting on a jury. Black people were brought to these lands in 1619, and Janet Jackson released Nasty before randomly excluding Black people from the jury process—an institution that’s been around since Athens—was ruled unconstitutional in any meaningful way. The next old white
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