I Know Juror B37

[weallknowjurorb37]

New Accusations Against Zimmerman Jurors As Sheriffs Office Admits It Allowed Unsupervised Access

The Zimmerman trial is called into question as the sheriff's office confirmed that jurors had unsupervised access to family and friends during trial. --- how does this complicate or simplify what we've all said here about "knowing" Juror B37? What imaginings do we think were going on? What was allowed -- permissible -- and why? 

[weallknowjurorb37]

Obama on ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws

President Obama urged local authorities to reconsider laws like the Stand Your Ground law in light of Trayvon Martin’s death.

[wearenottrayvonmartin]

I am a skinny white girl in my late 20s who was never seen as “suspicious" and stopped & frisked when I:

-was carrying over $3,000 worth of drugs on my body through multiple points of public transportation, while visibly fucked-up

OR

-was taking back (using bolt-cutters) my bike which was...

[wearenottrayvonmartin]

As a older white hippie woman, I don’t know what it is like to be black in America. The Zimmerman verdict depressed me. I can only imagine how it felt for black America. “Traumatic" is the word that comes to mind. I want to say that whatever people of color need to do to process this trauma, I...

[weallknowjurorb37]

I Know Juror B37

She's the librarian who works in the same area that I work in, but not in the same department. She had the audacity to enter my work area, uninvited and unannounced, pick up the tape dispenser on my desk and ask (more like said to herself) "Is this ours?" Once she discovered that it was not hers, she just promptly set it down and walked away without another word.

[weallknowjurorb37]

Teachers

I work with Juror B37. She would always laugh at the names of students of Middle Eastern descent and wonder aloud why parents would ever punish their children with such stupid names.

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Neighbor

I know Juror B37 because she is the neighbor that came to my house after my family left from celebrating a weekend of Independence Day at my house .....that my family and friends can come back anytime because they were surprisingly respectful.  Until Juror B37 spoke I never understood why she felt comfortable and a right to tell me that. 

[weallknowjurorb37]

I know Juror B37's twin sister who posted here.

I know Juror B37, but lets save that for another day. I also know her identical twin who happened to post here:

http://weallknowjurorb37.tumblr.com/post/55692321056/the-more-i-read-the-more-i-have-quickly-come-to

She asks us colored folks to accept the injustice and move on because it was lawful. I wanted to remind her that slavery was lawful, so was segregation at one point of time. The fact that the woman is so blind to the fact that laws can be biased makes her the twin sister of Juror B37.

[weallknowjurorb37]

I Know Juror B37. She's The Headhunter Who Told Me That I Looked Great From the Neck Down

A nationally recognized head hunter contacted me multiple times after reviewing my resume. After a few calls, I agreed to meet with her to discuss my career options. When I arrived, we exchanged pleasantries, reviewed my work history and discussed the trajectory of my career in the technology industry. And then she said it. "You look great from the neck down." I WAS STUNNED. She continued with statements like "you are great on paper," You are super polished," and the infamous "You're so articulate." She went on to explain that because of my hair (which I wear in LOCS) she would not be able to send me on interviews at any of the firms on Wall Street. "No one will hire you, you should wear a wig, a cute short style like Halle Berry."

I declined her suggestion to wear a wig and she persisted and persisted. I informed her that regardless of my hairstyle I could easily secure any position she had on her list. She begged me and I declined. In the end, she sent me on the interviews and I secured ALL of the high-profile, high-paying jobs offered to me WITHOUT wearing a wig. I declined each offer. I refused to allow her and her company to profit - get a commission, notoriety, referrals, etc. - from dehumanizing me and the countless others who sought her professional expertise.

Although I am proud of my stance, she continues to have a lucrative career. -- http://sojourner4truth.tumblr.com/

[sleepofreazon-blog]

She is the mother...

She is the mother who taught her 3-rd grader to tell my daughter she will not come to her birthday party because she “is brown". #JurorB37

[weallknowjurorb37]

I used to live with Juror B-37. She said I was her "friend". Until the first time we ever got into an argument. Then, I was just a "Black bitch" who wasn't "worth it". Then, I had "only gotten into college because I was Black". Then, I wasn't "actually" smart. Then, "I had never worked a day in my life". Mine & Trayvon Martin's Juror B-37 eventually showed their true selves; two people with perceptions so embedded in racist stereotypes that they were unable to see either of us as "worth it".

[weallknowjurorb37]

She is the classmate who upon hearing the list of colleges/universities I was applying to said "you'll get in them all because your black".  Completely negating the years and hours WE spent in music practice, journalism class and the library shouldering our 3-5hr homework loads at our elitist private school.

[weallknowjurorb37]

She was one of the neighbors who came to my house to tell my mother that my Black girlfriends shouldn't come to my house to play with me but should stay in "their own" neighborhood.

[weallknowjurorb37]

Thank you everyone for sharing your stories! This is beautiful, vital and enraging! Please continue to share and spread the word.  

[weallknowjurorb37]

I was on track to become Juror B37 in first grade when I told my black classmate's Mom, "Anyone can see that we are all the same, the palms of your hands are the same color as mine!" I am fighting not to be that naive person every day.

[weallknowjurorb37]

She is the mother who taught her teenaged son that it was acceptable to harass the Native American girls at the park: to say to one of the CHILDREN I work with to "Suck my ____" She is the reason my girls said to me, a 60-year-old white woman, "I wish my skin were white like yours. Your skin is so pretty." She is the reason I cry for my beautiful, brown-skinned girls.

[weallknowjurorb37]

She's The One Who Tried To Hold Me Back

Juror B37 was my college counselor in Carbondale, IL who told me that I needed to go back home after I had my son.  It was no way I could finish college with a baby.  Whenever I registered for classes, she would ask me over & over again "You still here?" with such disdain in her voice.  She was the one who never even said "Congratulations" when I registered for my last semester of classes.  She was the one who when she saw my family (including my husband) at graduation had that look of utter shock & awe to see that I was a part of a 'nuclear' family and success was in my genes.  Yep, I know Juror B37.