Originally Posted by
Kevin
It isn't quite that simple.
People create the system to give justice. The system exists for the express purpose of giving justice and justice is a verdict that does not contradict the purpose of the system's existence. Juries in the Deep South routinely let murderers of black men, women and children walk free. I don't think that we need to support those decisions out of allegiance to the process, especially if that process is giving results that are not acceptable.
We as a people created the system of justice we have. When it no longer gives justice, we are fully within our rights and in compliance with our history to change things until we can accept the verdicts being given. That's what the Civil Rights Act was all about.