Fudging Jurors?

Where do we come from as jurors?  We certainly don't come from the moon.  The moon is made of cheese, and eating all that cheese we'd be too constipated and too uncomfortable to think clearly.  Do we come from the racist countries in this Hemisphere where "blacks" were enslaved and "blacks" have been made afraid to talk about racism?

We come from the U.S.A. where over a 150 years ago more than a million lives were brutally slaughtered in a hate-spewing war against slavery, and racism has always been openly discussed; where, on city buses and all forms of public transportation, we're still -- in the 21st century -- so conscious of each other's racial differences and racial views that "blacks" try to avoid sitting beside anyone who looks white, Asian, or Hispanic; anyone who looks white, Asian, or Hispanic trys to avoid sitting beside anyone who looks "black."  And deciding whom we want or not want to sit beside -- for whatever reason -- is our right.

But the moment we -- as whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or any creature resembling a Homo Sapien -- are called to sit on a jury thoughts on race -- even the very word "race" -- miraculously vanishes from our mind and we say, "Oh, race was not a factor in this trial.  I don't see race or color.  I just see humans."

Yeah, right.  And, of course, there has never been a racist thought in any of us anywhere on this earth, especially in Florida.