The Reporters are/were dead wrong. She doesn't look White at all. In fact, she almost looks Black. http://t.co/pQFTvwM8Ym via @TheRoot247
— D Tanksley (@Tanksleyd) July 25, 2013
How ’bout that?
During the selection of the jury for George Zimmerman’s murder trial, juror B29 was identified as “black or Hispanic.”
All female jury, five of them white, will be the six regular jurors (for now). Alternates still being decided.
— Tony Pipitone (@TonyNBC6) June 20, 2013
But somehow — somehow — that detail didn’t reach many who bought into the rampant, race-baiting “all-white jury” narrative. And then the Puerto Rican juror known as “Maddy” revealed her face in an interview with Robin Roberts on ABC.
https://twitter.com/ShadiaBebe/status/360552843150770177
A sampling of tweets from earlier this month:
Zimmerman got an all white jury. How many Black men in prison got an all-Black jury?
— savannahkhan (@savannahkhan) July 14, 2013
Only N Ametican can an all white jury blame a child 4 his own murder &Free the murderer #JurorB37 is guilty. I hope this follows U2 ur grave
— Carreramae (@carreramae) July 19, 2013
https://twitter.com/Miigosh12/status/359523858413395968
Prosecution was set up from jump. The jury consisted of 6 white women. NO MEN. NO MINORITIES… JUST AN EFFED UP SITUATION
— Dear Arie (@ArielleRyan) July 14, 2013
https://twitter.com/RealLeahRichie/status/358353942104637440
https://twitter.com/kim_tastiic/status/360199060432494594
Except for the fact that you don’t live in a state where an all-white jury acquitted George Zimmerman. Via Reuters:
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Juror B29 allowed her face to be shown and used her first name, Maddy. ABC said the 36-year-old woman is Puerto Rican and that she recently moved to Florida from Chicago. She is a nursing assistant and mother of eight.
Juror B29, the only non-white member of the jury, is the second juror to speak in a televised interview, and the first to show her face.
Flashback:
Brian Williams described the jury as “all white” before issuing a correction.
Race Baiter @BWilliams Brian Williams: #Zimmerman Jury is All White (Wrong) http://t.co/vkLQoz4CaK #YellowJournalism #DemocratPoliticalHack
— Dorothy K Carter (@Dcarter888K) July 13, 2013
And he wasn’t the only one:
"CNN's Kate & Chris let 4 diff ppl call it an all-white jury! This is 1 of the ways a 'fact' gets invented & spread."http://t.co/vA1N4affaD
— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) July 17, 2013
A HuffPo piece claimed the “jury of all white women” could not “relate to Trayvon Martin.” A race-baiting op-ed by a Duke law prof pointed to the “all-white jury’s empathy for Zimmerman.” And the Washington Post was forced to issue this “correction” that leaves the door open for readers to assume the jury was probably all white:
An earlier version of the headline incorrectly reported that the jury in George Zimmerman’s trial is composed of six white women. Only five of the women are known to be white.
WaPo’s URL still includes the words “six white women to serve as jurors.” But hey, only five jurors are “known to be white.”
The Daily Howler has other examples of false or slippery jury descriptions from CNN, Chris Matthews and an NAACP rep.
Now that the news that Juror B29 isn’t white has gone viral, we can dispense with the narrative of a jury motivated solely by white supremacy, right? Not so fast. See, Maddy told ABC, “George Zimmerman got away with murder” because there wasn’t enough proof to convict him.
Reasonable doubt? That’s the result of white supremacy, natch.
https://twitter.com/Miekaaaa/status/360537344748687361
I believe Juror B29's submission to her fellow jury members is the result of white privilege and the pressure of minority assimilation.
— Fellatio Alger (@FellatioAlger) July 25, 2013
Juror B29 chose not to be ostracized by her white peers instead of justice and that is an unforgivable mistake.
— Fellatio Alger (@FellatioAlger) July 25, 2013
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