The Jena 6 | Richard Thompson Ford & Paul Butler

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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics

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00:00 The story of the Jena 6
10:05 Our racist criminal justice system
13:55 Are the Jena 6 good poster children?
24:55 The unjust War on Drugs
30:38 Prosecutorial zeal in black and white
36:33 Was de facto segregation the core problem?

Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford Law School, Racial Culture, The Race Card) and Paul Butler (George Washington University Law School, blackprof.com)

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Recorded on October 17, 2007

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