Top Highlights

• THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED that “justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.”
• there are two systems of justice in America: one for upper- and middle-class whites and another for the poor and people of color.
• seeing the courts as part of this double system of justice:
• dispelling the myth of a colorblind criminal justice system,
• Imagine the justice system having a similar sign outside the courthouse doors, where there is a type of backdoor justice that the poor and people of color enter, while whites enter from the front, or perhaps enter just to govern the system from which they are generally exempted.