Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140615:15:27:00
If you were wrongly accused, you could imagine dna as being the key to your freedom and in fact, dna has been the basis of exoneration in 316 convictions through the innocence project, a nonprofit founded by barry scheck, a member of o.j. simpson's defense team. i wanted to talk about dna in the context of race, because as we were just talking about, race is a social construct. it is not biological. yet in this case, that issue of dna and like the production of bodily matter became central to a race story in such a way that it ends up actually providing justice for hundreds of people of color ...