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0 think is not unreasonable. >> but if senator paul is looking for evidence, he need not look any further than last novembers 2012 election. according to a massachusetts institute of technology analysis, black and hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites. the long election day lines around florida may have turned away more than 200,000 frustrated would-be voters who gave up and went home before they cast ballots or saw the lines that were hours long and decided not to join t...

0 african-american and hispanic communities. >> professor peterson, though the stand your ground law was not ultimately used in zimmermans defense, its worth noting the profound racial disparity nrt convictions in stand your ground states. in cases with a black shooter and a white victim, just over 1% ruled justified. about the same as in states with no stand your ground law. but in cases with a white shooter and a black victim, almost 17% deemed justified. in states with no stand your ground la...

0 zimmermans high quality defense team would have made the difference late in the day. the questions people are focusing on deal with the ability of this particular jury tore understand what its like to be a black youth in todays america. to use that familiar phrase, do they get it? do they know what its like to have people suspect you of the worst because of what you look like, what youre dressed like or some combination? and are the people making their judgments about this case looking at the ...