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The movie was racist: All the black jurors were assholes.

posted 5 days ago by sonans (1568)
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The jury was very diverse: white, black, yellow. But the movie depicted blacks as either arrogant or lazy:

The male black juror kept saying: I don't care about evidence, all I want is to put the defendant in jail, even though all the evidence says otherwise. (A prick.)

The female black juror kept saying: I don't care about whether the defendant is guilty or not, all I want is to go back to my home to take care of my children. (A lazy pig.)

All the assholes were black, on the other hand, white and yellow are depicted as smart: the white cop was very careful about his duty as jury, and the asian was a doctor.

[–] redban (6318) 4 days ago

It’s Clint. He isn’t woke. I thought the black lady was alright, no worse than one of the white dudes sitting opposite the main character. The black dude was a massive jerk though

[–] wrlord (1170) 3 days ago

No, the white cop investigated the case when he KNEW his duty as a juror precluded that.

[–] liscarkat (18541) 2 days ago

And we know that in real life Negroes are never assholes.

[–] letess (1564) 2 days ago

The black male juror said that because the defendant was either from a biker gang or a white supremacist group and had a history of doing a lot of bad things to black youth in the community, including this guy’s brother - I think it’s his brother. And all the evidence did point to the defendant for a solid conviction. At least the evidence they got.

Jurors can get time off for jury duty but they might not be paid. Some employers pay for a certain time period, and then you are on your own. You have to use your PTO. Georgia pays a juror $25 a day. So, the black female bus driver wanted to get back to work because it appears she might have been one of the few who actually had a job.

The other jurors were retired, students, lived at home with their parents. I don’t know what Juror #2 did - but the judge made it a point to say that he would be able to go home on time each night.

The jerk turned out to be Juror #2.

[–] Mynvosa (117) 19 hours ago

Everyone was an asshole in this movie.
The protagonist, the clichéd hunch-driven former cop who violated jury rules, the prosecutor who cared about putting the defendant away no matter what. The defendant was a bad guy even if he didn't kill his girlfriend. And let's not forget Keiko, the juror who was quite happy to vote guilty even though it's later revealed that she has medical knowledge which would refute the defendant's role in the death of his girlfriend. She later changes her vote back to guilty for no adequately explained reason. Everyone in this film was a dick. If you're singling out black people in particular, that's a you problem. In fact, the black jurors were the only people with some semblance of a reasoning for why they were willing to condemn the defendant despite the flimsy evidence. I would argue that this makes them the least dickish of the bunch.