In “Study Finds Blacks Blocked from Southern Juries,” the New York Times writes about how prosecutors’ dismissals result in racially imbalanced juries throughout much of the former Confederacy.

The reasons given aren’t that great, either:

The district attorney, Robert Broussard, said one had seemed “arrogant” and “pretty vocal.” In another woman, he said he “detected hostility.”

Mr. Broussard also questioned the “sophistication” of a former Army sergeant, a forklift operator with three years of college, a cafeteria manager, an assembly-line worker and a retired Department of Defense program analyst.