In the article, Jury Bias: Can You Argue the Facts When Race Enters the Mix, the author Silvia L. Mazzula tells us the truth that sometimes decisions from jurors are based on more than just facts. They are likely to be influenced by race, even though they don’t really notice that. The author firstly puts forward some public’s controversy about this kind of unfairness. The whole article is based on a study, in this study, we can see the jury bias does exist. Since we notice that situation, we need to try our best to improve racism through effective ways. When writing this article, the author takes many risks. A writer that takes a risk, is a writer that is not afraid of expressing his/her opinions that are controversial and sensitive. In the
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Silvia found that not all judges are completely fair from her social network site, “over the past several months, my Twitter and Facebook newsfeeds have overflowed with posts about race and the justice system following grand jury rulings to not indict in the cases involving police killings of unarmed Black men.” (Silvia) We can see that the case of police killings of unarmed Black men has been discussing by the public for a long time. Silvia also mentions that Blacks are treated the worst in criminal and civil cases, and some studies show jurors’ biases about race may have something to do with their verdict, even many researchers don’t quite agree. Obviously, it’s a sensitive and controversial topic. It’s related to public concern about the justice system and racism. Due to that, Silvia takes social risk when she is writing this article. Racism is always a sensitive topic in the society, it seems that racism always exists and people notice that, but they don’t want to mention it. The public may say that she is trying to challenge the authority of the United States justice system since there exists injustice. In Silvia’s standpoint, she just wants to let the kind of injustice can be paid more attention by the public, even though these jurors may feel
Silvia found that not all judges are completely fair from her social network site, “over the past several months, my Twitter and Facebook newsfeeds have overflowed with posts about race and the justice system following grand jury rulings to not indict in the cases involving police killings of unarmed Black men.” (Silvia) We can see that the case of police killings of unarmed Black men has been discussing by the public for a long time. Silvia also mentions that Blacks are treated the worst in criminal and civil cases, and some studies show jurors’ biases about race may have something to do with their verdict, even many researchers don’t quite agree. Obviously, it’s a sensitive and controversial topic. It’s related to public concern about the justice system and racism. Due to that, Silvia takes social risk when she is writing this article. Racism is always a sensitive topic in the society, it seems that racism always exists and people notice that, but they don’t want to mention it. The public may say that she is trying to challenge the authority of the United States justice system since there exists injustice. In Silvia’s standpoint, she just wants to let the kind of injustice can be paid more attention by the public, even though these jurors may feel