12 Angry Men Bias

In Life, people can have biases of someone's race, religion, or background. Both Twelve Angry Men (Rose’s Drama) and “Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case” (Liptak’s Article) deal with Judgement based on somebody’s background. In Twelve Angry Men a bunch of rich, white jurors tries to solve a case about a slum boy who supposedly killed his own father, and in Liptak’s Article, a group of jurors decides whether an individual is guilty or not and the thing that they judge him about is his race. However, despite the similarities of this novel and article, there are many differences as well. Twelve Angry Men, which took place in the ‘50s, is fictional, and has to do with judging someone because of their background, while Liptak’s …show more content…
In Twelve angry men, the defendant is an immigrant from eastern Europe and grew up in the slums. Most of the jurors assumed that the defendant was guilty based on his background “These people are born to lie. Now, it’s the way they are and no intelligent individual is gonna tell me otherwise. They don’t know what the truth is. Well, take a look at them. They are different. They think differently. They act differently. Well, for instance, they don’t need any big excuse to kill someone” (Rose page 64.). Juror #10 is making a statement that the defendant was guilty based on where and how he grew up, like Liptak’s Article this also talks about injustice, but however, it has to do with how the boy grew up, not his race. However, Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case talks about an assumption that Mr. Pena Rodriguez was guilty of sexual assault just because of his race. “I think he did it because he’s Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want.” One of the Jurors is making an immediate opinion that the defendant is guilty based on a stereotype about his race, It is different than Twelve Angry men because it has much less character that, and talks about racial bias, unlike Twelve Angry