Yet they were not only deluged with phone calls from the media and others, but the jury foreman had her name and the town she lived in published in the New York Times. This is not the first time the NY Times has published the names of jurors who reached a verdict they didn't like. They published the names and employers of the jurors who acquitted the policemen charged in the beating of Rodney King. Incidentally, in a truly hideous and deliberate crime committed while this trial was going on, a just-paroled criminal hijacked a car and dragged the little boy who was in it to his death. But no one pointed out that the race of this criminal differed from the race of his victim.
Race is hyped only when it is politically correct.
JWR contributor Thomas Sowell, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, is author, most recently, of The Quest for Cosmic Justice.