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I was a juror at a Scottsboro trial today. As I sat down I had noticed that the jurors around me were almost all white which seemed almost peculiar. Once the court case began, I had heard the side of the lovely Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Everything that they claimed seemed possible and is most likely what happened to those two poor ladies. Looking at those African-Americans defending themselves filled me with even more anger and hate towards their kind. Why would they do such a thing towards innocent white women and then continue to spit out lies? The boys seemed to have no valid defense and factual evidence to support their case and should be ashamed of themselves for trying to spread lies to the people watching. Victoria, however, had
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