Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  Eleven of us met on Saturday July 15th to discuss Laura Coates' book, "Just Pursuit." The book consists of sixteen descriptive essays of her experiences working as a federal prosecutor. Robin started us off with, " One thing that was sort of interesting was that I felt like there were many different themes, different chapters had different sorts of themes. They weren’t always about white supremacy. Sometimes they were about the power of these judges. There were many different themes, some o f th em about the arbitrariness of these judges and the lack of justice in our system ." Wendy clarified with, "the impact of these judgements that were announced." Bonnie called our attention to "Chapter 9 with the kid getting the long sentence. In chapter 1 she sticks up for this guy that was going to be deported but then in chapter 3 she didn’t help the Black defendant. What I found interesting is that she mentioned the Milgrim Study: a study don