No one should have to go to jail on false information.
Jesse Jackson: “No one should have to go to jail on false information.”
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Jesse Jackson discusses the implications of the false accusations against the Duke lacrosse players.
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I would think most citizens of Gaffney would be against this, that it's morally wrong, but their silence must not speak louder than their action.
It is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship.
You look on a jury without a black and without a man, certainly not a jury of Trayvon's peers, the Department of Justice must intervene and take this case to another level.
People should be able to buy guns to hunt, guns on reservations, done in restrictive conditions. But you don't hunt deer and rabbit with AK-47s.